From d918d79f6070d46a4ee49722cbf85da794b1fe50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?=E5=AE=8B=E6=96=87=E6=AD=A6?= <iyzsong@member.fsf.org>
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 20:17:35 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Mention the need of a BIOS boot partition when using
 GPT.

* doc/guix.text (Preparing for Installation)[Disk Partitioning]:
Mention the need of a BIOS boot partition when using GPT with the defualt
GRUB.
---
 doc/guix.texi | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 4dc65ee45d..7093bf7461 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -6963,6 +6963,11 @@ the partition layout you want:
 cfdisk
 @end example
 
+If your disk uses the GUID Partition Table (GPT) format and you plan to
+install BIOS-based GRUB (which is the default), make sure a BIOS Boot
+Partition is available (@pxref{BIOS installation,,, grub, GNU GRUB
+manual}).
+
 Once you are done partitioning the target hard disk drive, you have to
 create a file system on the relevant partition(s)@footnote{Currently
 GuixSD only supports ext4 and btrfs file systems.  In particular, code