[Bug 506670] Re: >2TB/GPT: Must warn if BIOS boot partition is missing (unbootable system!)

[cheshirekow]

Actuallly, I'm not sure that this was my problem. It appears that my
problem might be related to my motherboard and it's inability to boot a
disk installed with GPT (may be the 2TB thing, maybe not) (also, event
though it's and intel board... didn't intel invent GPT)?  Anyway, I
actually got it to work by an ugly hack: I installed grub on a USB
stick.

I suspect that if I were to repartition the drive using msdos partition
table it would work. I may or may not try in the future.

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Title:
  >2TB/GPT: Must warn if BIOS boot partition is missing (unbootable
  system!)

Status in “partman-base” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “partman-base” source package in Lucid:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: partman-base

  (Ubuntu karmic, alternate install CD)

  If you manually partition a large disk (2TB or more), a GUID partition table (GPT) will automatically (and silently) be used.
  This means that you *have to* create a BIOS boot partition ( http://grub.enbug.org/BIOS_Boot_Partition ), or the grub setup will fail and the system will be unbootable.

  There *really* should be a warning about a missing BIOS boot partiton
  (just like there is a warning about the missing swap partition, which
  is far less important).

  This will bite a lot of people as disks > 2TB become standard.

  Screenshot of "Fatal error" when "configuring grub-pc": http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/2181/dsc01923o.jpg
  Screenshot of error messages on VT3: http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/9581/dsc01922yi.jpg , transcript:
  Jul  6 01:34:43 grub-installer: grub-setup: warn: This GPT partition label has no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be possible!
  Jul  6 01:34:43 grub-installer: grub-setup: error: Embedding is not possible, but this is required when the root device is on a RAID array or LVM volume.

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