Subject: bug#44027: 1.2-29a2eb3 Installer fails at final stage installing GRUB.

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 16:32:51 +0200

Hi Brendan,

Brendan Tildesley <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Going through the GUI installer selecting all the defaults, and install with LVM and ecryption, AND for the normal option without encryption I get these errors on TWO different laptops, both ~10 years old with BIOS.
>
> Encrypted:
>
> Installing for i386-pc  platform.
> grub-install: warning: this GPT partition label contains no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be possible.
> grub-install: error: embedding is not possible, but this is required for RAID and LVM install.
>
> Unencrypted:
>
> Installing for i386-pc  platform.
> grub-install: warning: this GPT partition label contains no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be possible.
> grub-install: warning: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged..
> grub-install: error: will not proceed with blocklists.

Shouldn’t it create a “legacy” partition table rather than GPT since
we’re on an old, non-UEFI platform?

Ludo’.