Installation on an old PC without GPT and without UEFI

General system EndeavourOS installation
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Hello.

Maybe in the next weeks I’ll install EndeavourOS on an old desktop PC at home, now running Ubuntu 18.04. This is the disk configuration at the moment:

sda      465,8G  SSD disk → MBR/BIOS, legacy boot
├─sda1   199,5G  part Windows 10 (NTFS)
├─sda2     529M  part Hidden NTFS (WinRE)
└─sda3   265,8G  part / Ubuntu 18.04 (ext4)
sdb      931,5G  old HDD disk 
├─sdb1      40G  part [SWAP]
└─sdb2   891,5G  part /home for Ubuntu (ext4)

I would like to know in advance if this configuration (no GPT, no UEFI) is correctly supported by Calamares and if I have to pay attention to some particular aspect (I do not want to reinstall Windows and format everything else than sda3). For example, I will have to choose GRUB instead of systemd-boot: are there other things like this?

Of course I will make a backup of everything before proceeding and I’ve already read several articles and wikis about installation.

Marcello

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Calamares supports it without issue. Calamares detects how it is booted and makes decisions based on that. For example, you won’t even be offered systemd-boot when the ISO is booted in legacy mode.

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Do NOT resize Windows partition within Linux. Use Windows Disk Manager for that purpose. That is the only thing you should pay attention to.

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Hello. Yesterday I completed the installation. Everything went smoothly, without any problem. Thanks for your answers.

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