Ubuntu
ubiquity package

  1. Bug #820723
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 820723

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Rod Smith (rodsmith) wrote :

This bug's title is misleading. The BIOS Boot Partition is required (or at least recommended), as the partition's name suggests, on *BIOS-based* systems. On UEFI-based systems, this partition is NOT required.

The bug reported seems to be that a proper installation of grub-efi (GRUB for EFI/UEFI systems) is being replaced by an improper installation of grub-pc (GRUB for BIOS systems) when GRUB is updated. Since grub-pc tries to install to a BIOS Boot Partition on GPT disks, it generates the reported error message, but that message is misleading.