On 11/01/19 6:52 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 11:04:16PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I've just done most of an installation on a BIOS machine, with a pair of >> new 4TB disks, which require GPT. >> >> Grub fails to install, which I possibly should have predicted - though I >> thought di might have either coped or warned me. >> >> It seems I need a BIOS boot partition, and that it should fit in the >> space before my first existing partition, is that right? Any tips on >> creating such a thing, preferably from within the di environment? >> >> Or do I need to do some partitioning before starting the installer? >> Links to relevant references or howtos welcome. > > If you use guided partitioning the installer creates a 1MB partition > with 'use as' set to 'Reserved BIOS boot area' which then shows as type > 'biosgrub'. > > So that would be the type to create yourself. >
That worked great, thanks. Though it seems the '1.0MB' free before my first partition wasn't big enough (or not aligned right?) so I had to start from scratch. Incidentally, could/should I have made that RAID1? I created bios partitions on both my disks, and have grub-install-ed to both. The partitions do seem to be identical. Thanks, Richard
