Creating a Bios boot partition?

Mike Hughes engineerhughes at comcast.net
Sat Jan 21 13:49:16 UTC 2017


Ok still going with my never ending Server boot problem. I believe I have discovered the problem. Apparently when I created the backup I should have disabled the EFI booting. Every time when I ran Boot-Repair I was getting a message to boo from a USB in EFI mode. So apparently when I created my Clone it somehow created a EFI boot area. Thus when I restored the backup it can't find boot info in the EFI area. I went into set up and disabled EFI. I ran Boot-Repair and chose options my boot info for Ubuntu showed up I then received an option that said GPT detected. Please create a BIOS Boot Partiton (<-1MB I formatted filesystem, bios_grub flag). It says I can use Gparted to do that. 
Question,  this is a 14.04 LTS version. Can I use the latest Server software upgrade to it and repair the MBR without erasing my data from the server like my Wordpress installs?

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