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Fix BIOS + GPT disk setup instructions

Douglas Silva requested to merge crimson.king/user-handbook:patch-bios-gpt-boot into master

This is about this section.

Currently it tells you to set the boot flag on the boot partition, but the correct flag is legacy_boot. See here. Using the current flag results in an unbootable system, at least when using the default bootloader, Syslinux - I haven't tested GRUB yet.

Secondly, the 1 MiB partition with the flag bios_grub is, of course, only needed by GRUB. As the default bootloader is Syslinux, I believe the examples should be written for Syslinux first. To address this with minimal change, I've only added a note to indicate that this partition is a GRUB-specific installation requirement.

Tested on GNOME Boxes 44.2 (libvirt) using the alpine-virt-3.18.2-x86_64.iso installation image.

Edited by Douglas Silva

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