

Master Boot Record (MBR) specific instructions To have the viewable partitions begin at the base consider adding this partition last. In fdisk or gdisk create a new partition starting at sector 34 and spanning to 2047 and set the type. Since the partition will not be regularly accessed performance issues can be disregarded, though some disk utilities will display a warning about it. The space before the first partition can also be used as the BIOS boot partition though it will be out of GPT alignment specification. When the partition is ready, install the bootloader as per the instructions below.

This partition needs to be created before GRUB installation. This partition can be in any position order but has to be on the first 2 TiB of the disk. For parted set/activate the flag bios_grub on the partition.
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On a BIOS/MBR setup, GRUB uses the post-MBR gap for the embedding the core.img.
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3.2.1.3.3 Windows installed in BIOS/MBR mode.3.2.1.3.2 Windows installed in UEFI/GPT mode.3.2.1.2.3 Chainloading a unified kernel image.3.2.1.1.3 "UEFI Firmware Settings" menu entry.3.1.2 Detecting other operating systems.3.1.1 Generate the main configuration file.1.2 Master Boot Record (MBR) specific instructions.1.1 GUID Partition Table (GPT) specific instructions.
