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     occurrence, the best solution is to purchase more RAM for your
     system.</para> </sect3>
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+    <sect3>
+    <title>The Grub Bios Partition</title>
+
+    <para>If the <emphasis>boot disk</emphasis> has been partitioned with a
+    GUID Partition Table (GPT), then a small, typically 1 MB, partition must be
+    created if it does not already exist.  This partition is not formatted, but
+    must be available for GRUB to use during installation of the boot
+    loader. This partition will normally be labeled 'BIOS Boot' if using
+    <command>fdisk</command> or have a code of <emphasis>EF02</emphasis> if
+    using the <command>gdisk</command> command.</para>
+
+    <note><para>The Grub Bios partition must be on the drive that the BIOS
+    uses to boot the system.  This is not necessarily the drive that holds
+    the LFS root partition. The disks on a system may use different
+    partition table types. The necessity of the Grub Bios partition depends
+    only on the partition table type of the boot disk.</para></note>
+    </sect3>
 
     <sect3>