Installer should ensure a Boot BIOS partition is created on GPT when BIOS is non-EFI

[Ray DeCampo]

I did a fresh install of 12.10 on a new SSD and used the installer to partition the drive. I had chosen 'Something Else' for installation type (http://www.debianadmin.com/wp-content/gallery/quantal/4.png) because I had 12.04 installed on another drive. The installer created a GPT type partition table. When I rebooted the system would not boot from the drive because the BIOS was non-EFI.

The installer should try to detect this situation and prevent it. When I ran Boot Repair it was able to tell me I had a GPT drive on a non-EFI BIOS with no Boot BIOS partition, so it is possible.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

Yes, this would save a lot of people headaches, and a lot of bug reports being filed.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

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