System unable to install boot loader on any drives during recovery install

[albert fishnets]

I was trying to recover a previously working installation to an SSD on a marvel sata3 6.0gb/s using ext4. Attempted to reinstall system and I cannot install boot loader on any of my drives including the target drive or any other drive. System produces a fatal error every time.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: ubiquity 2.8.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.287
Date: Fri Oct 28 17:45:40 2011
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Exception during installation:
Oct 28 17:44:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Oct 28 17:44:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1641, in <module>
Oct 28 17:44:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: install.run()
Oct 28 17:44:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 55, in wrapper
Oct 28 17:44:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: func(self)
Oct 28 17:44:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 199, in run
Oct 28 17:44:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: self.configure_bootloader()
Oct 28 17:44:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 955, in configure_bootloader
Oct 28 17:44:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: "GrubInstaller failed with code %d" % ret)
Oct 28 17:44:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py: InstallStepError: GrubInstaller failed with code 1
Oct 28 17:44:39 ubuntu plugininstall.py:

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Oct 28 17:10:44 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install --no-floppy --force "/dev/sda"
Oct 28 17:10:45 ubuntu grub-installer: /usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: This GPT partition label has no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be possible!.
Oct 28 17:10:45 ubuntu grub-installer: /usr/sbin/grub-setup: error: embedding is not possible, but this is required for cross-disk install.
Oct 28 17:10:45 ubuntu grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install --no-floppy --force "/dev/sda"' failed.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

Your disk is partitioned with GPT but you are in a bios booting computer. This requires a 1 mb bios_grub partition to install grub.