Right now, the handbook states this: "For completeness, the BIOS boot partition is needed when GPT partition layout is used with GRUB2, or when the MBR partition layout is used with GRUB2 when the first partition starts earlier than the 1 MB location on the disk." In addition, throughout the handbook, the BIOS Boot partition is mentioned and created. However, BIOS Boot partitions do not make sense in the context of UEFI (which is the majority of today's systems and thus the primary target of the handbook), so that line is factually inaccurate. At minimum, the "What is the BIOS boot partition?" section should have a note saying that it only applies to BIOS systems. Ideally, the BIOS boot partition should also not be a part of the default partitioning layout. In addition, the /boot partition is currently described as: /dev/sda2 ext2 (or vfat) 128M Boot partition Nowadays the FS type should be swapped, to: /dev/sda2 vfat (or ext2) 128M (EFI) Boot partition The amount of space allocated for it would be best increased (to at least 512 MiB), too, since EFI SYSTEM partitions store kernels for all the installed OSs.
please use the "discussion" tab for suggestions on the handbook wiki page itself.
I asked on the IRC channel and was told to submit change requests to the handbook here, *not* to the discussion tab of the wiki. If it is in fact policy to submit change requests to the discussion tab of the wiki now, then please remove "Installation Handbook" or indeed the whole "Documentation" product from the bug tracker.
