Reserved BIOS boot area
(a.k.a. biosgrub
) is no longer available in Ubuntu 20.04.[45] at the stage of partition planning. To fix this, we can preset the 1MB partition type of /dev/sda2
as do not use the partition
during partition planning, then change its type code to EF02
later before confirmation of the timezone selection.Preliminary partition plan under GUI: | ![]() |
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Preliminary partition plan reported by:
gdisk -l /dev/sda
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Fix | After you select the timezone but BEFORE clicking "continue",
open a terminal and do:
sudo gdisk /dev/sda # print partition list of /dev/sda # change partition type # change type of partition 2 # change type of 2nd partition to EF02 (BIOS boot) # write change # confirm change (y/N) and quit gdiskthen continue installation under GUI. |
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After Fix | ![]() |
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