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Error Installing Guardium: "Your BIOS-based system needs a special partition to boot from a GPT disk label."

Troubleshooting


Problem

You are using the ISO file to install IBM Security Guardium v11.3 or higher on a virtual machine.
During setup, you see an unfamiliar message and menu options.
Your BIOS-based system needs a special partition to boot from a GPT disk label.
If you proceed, installation completes but the main disk partition is too small, usually only 50 GB.

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Modified date:
19 October 2023

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