Ubuntu
grub2 package

  1. Bug #972250
  2. Comment #0

Comment 0 for bug 972250

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Tomi Hukkalainen (tpievila) wrote : "This GPT partition label has no BIOS Boot Partition"

On a system installed with 11.10 and upgraded to 12.04 last week, today grub fails to apt-get upgrade with this error in /var/log/apt/term.log:

/usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: This GPT partition label has no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be possible!.
/usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installed in this se
tup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged..
/usr/sbin/grub-setup: error: non-sector-aligned data is found in the core file.

The system has luks+lvm as installed by 11.10 alternative installation cd, and indeed seems to have GPT but no BIOS partition (system is running BIOS on Asus F1A75V-PRO motherboard).