Update help manual with additional partition flags (#776002)

Also clarify legacy GRUB section regarding install to MBR or
to partition.

Bug 776002 - Update help with additional partition flags
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Curtis Gedak 2016-12-12 10:04:58 -07:00 committed by Mike Fleetwood
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" [
<!ENTITY appversion "0.22.0">
<!ENTITY manrevision "1.9">
<!ENTITY date "March 2015">
<!ENTITY appversion "0.27.0">
<!ENTITY manrevision "1.10">
<!ENTITY date "December 2016">
<!ENTITY app "gparted">
<!ENTITY appname "GParted">
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</abstract>
<copyright>
<year>2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015</year>
<year>2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016</year>
<holder>Curtis Gedak</holder>
</copyright>
<copyright>
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<!-- According to GNU FDL, revision history is mandatory if you are -->
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<revhistory>
<revision>
<revnumber>&appname; Manual V1.10</revnumber>
<date>December 2016</date>
<revdescription>
<para role="author">Curtis Gedak</para>
<para role="publisher">&appname; Project</para>
<para role="annotations">Describes version 0.27.0 of &appname;</para>
</revdescription>
</revision>
<revision>
<revnumber>&appname; Manual V1.9</revnumber>
<date>March 2015</date>
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diagnostics / recovery.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
ESP indicates an EFI System Partition used to boot
computers with the Unified Extensible Firmware
Interface (UEFI) class 2 that includes compatibility
support for BIOS functions including the MBR partition
structure.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Hidden is used by some commercial operating systems.
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operating system.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Irst identifies an Intel Rapid Start Technology
partition.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
LBA is used by some commercial operating system
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<listitem>
<para>
Prep is used to indicate the boot partition
on Power Performance Computing (PowerPC) hardware.
on Power Performance Computing (PowerPC) hardware.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
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or recovery.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
ESP indicates an EFI System Partition used to boot
computers with Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI)
class 1 or Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
(UEFI) class 2 or UEFI class 3.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Hidden is used by some commercial operating systems.
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service partition.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Irst identifies an Intel Rapid Start Technology
partition.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Legacy_boot is used by some special purpose software
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Volume Manager (LVM).
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Msftdata identifies partitions that contain Microsoft
file systems such as NTFS or FAT.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Msftres is used to indicate a Microsoft Reserved
partition.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Prep is used to indicate the boot partition
on Power Performance Computing (PowerPC) hardware.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
RAID indicates the partition is used in a Redundant
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<para>
Set the <application>grub</application> root device by
specifying the device returned by the
<command>find</command> command.
<command>find</command> command. This should be the
partition containing the boot directory.
<screen><prompt>grub&gt; </prompt>root <replaceable>(hd0,0)</replaceable></screen>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Reinstall <application>grub</application> by specifying
the device returned by the <command>find</command>
command.
Reinstall the <application>grub</application> boot
loader into the Master Boot Record (MBR) with:
<screen><prompt>grub&gt; </prompt>setup <replaceable>(hd0)</replaceable></screen>
</para>
<para>
If you want to install the
<application>grub</application> boat loader into the
boot sector of a partition, instead specify a partition
with:
<screen><prompt>grub&gt; </prompt>setup <replaceable>(hd0,0)</replaceable></screen>
</para>
</listitem>