Public bug reported:
A clean install of Natty on a UEFI (ASUS P8P67) system gives me this
layout:
$ sudo parted /dev/sda print
Model: ATA Corsair CSSD-F12 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 120GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 17.4kB 20.0MB 20.0MB fat16 boot
2 20.0MB 111GB 111GB ext4
3 111GB 120GB 8569MB linux-swap(v1)
The installation is successful and the system boots fine. But
subsequently, the automatic update replaces grub-efi with grub-pc and
the system becomes unbootable (grub-install complains: "This GPT
partition label has no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be
possible!")
I tried reinstalling the system from scratch and got exactly the same
problem again. I also tried "upgrading" the broken system from LiveUSB
instead of reinstalling it from scratch, but that didn't help.
Eventually I fixed the problem by manually reinstalling grub-efi instead
of grub-pc. In Question #166162, I was advised that the installer should
have created a bios_grub partition, hence this bug.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: ubiquity (not installed)
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-0300-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Aug 3 22:20:40 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-07-14 (21 days ago)
** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug natty
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Installer creates no BIOS boot partition on UEFI system, system
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