Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5 - VIRTUAL SERVER ADMINISTRATION, Installation Manual

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Deleting a Partition
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Note
If the partition already exists on your disk, you can only change the partition's mount point.
To make any other changes, you must delete the partition and recreate it.
4.19.7. Deleting a Partition
To delete a partition, highlight it in the
Partitions
section and click the
Delete
button. Confirm the
deletion when prompted.
For further installation instructions for x86, AMD64, and Intel
®
64 systems, skip to
Section 4.20, “x86,
AMD64, and Intel
®
64 Boot Loader Configuration”
.
For further installation instructions for Itanium systems, skip to
Section 4.21, “Network Configuration”
.
4.20. x86, AMD64, and Intel
®
64 Boot Loader Configuration
To boot the system without boot media, you usually need to install a boot loader. A boot loader is the
first software program that runs when a computer starts. It is responsible for loading and transferring
control to the operating system kernel software. The kernel, in turn, initializes the rest of the operating
system.
GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader), which is installed by default, is a very powerful boot loader. GRUB
can load a variety of free operating systems, as well as proprietary operating systems with chain-
loading (the mechanism for loading unsupported operating systems, such as DOS or Windows, by
loading another boot loader).