[Bug 506670] Re: >2TB/GPT: Must warn if BIOS boot partition is missing (unbootable system!)
Rolf Leggewie
506670 at bugs.launchpad.net
Wed Jun 17 10:59:52 UTC 2015
lucid has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any
updates. Marking the lucid task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".
** Changed in: partman-base (Ubuntu Lucid)
Status: Triaged => Won't Fix
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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:
Won't Fix
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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