BIOS boot partition: Difference between revisions

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Overview: Who says it is unimportant? Is this just opinion or is it declared in the partitioning standard / bootloader's documentation? Even if it is *written* to rarely, it is *read* every boot, and anything that clobbers it will prevent bootup.
Creation: GRUB doesn't CREATE partitions it just utilizes them for the purpose of bootloading. Adding cfdisk and fdisk as utilities that can create BIOS boot partitions.
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== Creation ==
The following utilities are known to support BIOS boot partitions:
* [[cfdisk]]
 
* [[fdisk]]
* [[GRUB 2]] (1.97~beta1 or later): when a BIOS boot partition is found during installation, GRUB will embed itself in it.
* [[GNU Parted]] (2.0 or later).
* [[GParted]], the front-end to GNU Parted.