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

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Brendan,

Brendan Tildesley <mail@brendan.scot> 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’.