llewellen,
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Originally Posted by llewellen
Gparted does allow me to create a new partition table. What should it look like?
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Assuming that you have saved any personal data you need, you have two choices:
a. UEFI boot with the drive formatted as
GPT.
OR
b. Legacy/CSM boot with the drive formatted as
msdos. This is shorter.
You need to set the required boot (a or b) in BIOS/UEFI.
If there is an existing fat32 esp partition for Option a, then keep it. Delete all other existing partitions.
Option a:
1. Boot the laptop using Gparted and format the main drive as
GPT.
2. Create a fat32 esp (efi system partition) partition (
sda1 with 500MiB), click on Apply. Leave the remainder of the drive as unallocated.
3. Next and most importantly, right-click on the fat32 partition > Manage flags > Select boot and esp.
4. Close GParted, shut down the computer, remove the GParted Live media.
5. Boot from the Manjaro USB drive and use the Calamares installer to create the other 3 primary partitions after selecting
Something else/Manual partitioning.
Make sure to select Beginning for the location of each partition.
Highlight the free space and click on Change.
First create
sda2:
sda2....formatted (X in the box) as ext4 as the root partition (/)......Size: 25000MiB
Click on OK.
Highlight the free space and click on Change.
sda3.....not formatted (no X in the box) as the swap partition.............Size: 2000MiB.
Click on OK.
Highlight the free space and click on Change.
sda4......formatted (X in the box) as ext4 as the Home partition (/home)......Size: Remainder of hard drive.
Click on OK.
Install on sda.
Option b:
Using GParted, format the drive as
msdos and delete existing partitions.
Boot from the Manjaro USB drive and at the
Something else stage, create 3 primary partitions for root, swap and home similar to 5. above.
