Installation fails with "your bios-based system needs a special partition to boot from a gpt disk label"

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Issue

  • RHEL 7 installation fails with "your bios-based system needs a special partition to boot from a gpt disk label", to continue, please create a 1Mib biosboot type partition"

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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