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idtownie

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Registered: 2015-02-27

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Make /boot partition bootable on single partition setup?

I'm a newbie about to attempt my first Arch install. I was looking through the beginners' guide, to make sure that everything made sense to me, when I came to the partition scheme section. Here it said:

The following command will be used to flag the partition that contains the /boot directory as bootable:
       (parted) set partition boot on

I would prefer to install Arch with a single / partition instead of having to create a separate /boot one. Basically, I'm wondering if I can use a single / partition and skip this step of making a /boot partition and making it bootable or if I would need some other command.

Thanks in advance.

esa

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Registered: 2011-12-29

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Re: Make /boot partition bootable on single partition setup?

Hi,

This works the same way on all linux'.
Just - do not create a /boot partition - and leave anything on default, should result in expected  behaviour.

Hope this helps

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Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: Make /boot partition bootable on single partition setup?

I'm wondering if I can use a single / partition and skip this step of making a /boot partition

Yes.

... and skip ... making it bootable

No.  In your case, your / partition would be your boot partition, and it should be flagged as such.

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