cfdisk

um i just create one big partition it could be an ext4 or ntfs i can do a lot of different things with that depending on the file system or the operating system i'm loading But the main thing with those MBRs is I create that one partition, I mark it active and bootable, and then away I go.

A lot of times, I think it's CFDisk, all you have to do is do bootable, it automatically, I think, marks it active.

Just know that the legacy boot has something called flags.

When I say bootable or active, that's a flag for it.

It just depends on what tools you use to partition your drive and other things like that when you get into the complexities of this.

But if you follow those guidelines a lot, almost any tool will work.

I will warn you against using CFDisk for GPT or UEFI because CFDisk just isn't compatible with it.

It's an old Linux based tool that's mainly meant for the legacy.