Package: debian-installer Severity: normal When you use the new "GPT" partition table format, there is no gap between the master boot record and the first partition for the boot loader (e.g. GRUB) to install itself into. Therefore, when GPT format is requested, the partitioner should create a "BIOS boot partition" by default, so that the boot loader has somewhere to go. In directed mode, it should just go ahead and do it; in expert mode it should perhaps just notify the user that this partition will be needed on the boot disk.
If you don't have this partition on your boot disk, bootloader package updates can render the system unbootable. See http://grub.enbug.org/BIOS_Boot_Partition for further explanation. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
