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likemike

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Registered: 2019-12-29

Posts: 54

[SOLVED] Error: This gpt partition table contains not biod boot par...

I'm attempting to create a raid 0 array to install arch on and I've ran into a couple issues. First of which comes with the error referenced in the title:

grub-install: warning: this gpt partition label contains no bios boot partition

this occurs after entering the command

grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sda

After encountering this error I used fdisk to add the legacy bios boot flag to the /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 partitions. After doing so I received the same error and found out that it might have been that /etc/fstab needed to be updated so I ran mount -av which I think completed that but the error still persisted.

Last edited by likemike (2020-01-09 18:09:48)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED] Error: This gpt partition table contains not biod boot par...

GRUB on GPT on BIOS requires a small partition specific to GRUB. It has nothing to do with the legacy bios boot flag or anything like that. It's well covered on the GRUB wiki page.