Re: debian 6.0.4 grub installation failed.
cfdisk to 2tb Drive give me this
Warning!! Unsupported GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected. Use GNU Parted.
since things were not booting up with 2TB so i just installed 320 GB
HD so that things start well however after installation and after
successful boot. when i cfdisk the primary partition it give me this
error .
FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 2: Partition ends in the final partial cylind
Press any key to exit cfdisk
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 8 May 2012 17:08:10 +0500, Muhammad wrote in message
> <[🔎] CAGWVfMmmgBswr+zt1SHA8WrDv0WTmDc6_C00i2+K4msDh48BRg@mail.gmail.com>:
>>
>> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan
>> <sirtcp@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > i just bought 2TBx2 Harddrives and a computer for making it a
>> > centralized archiving server. moving forward everything went well
>> > but during the installation in RAID creating i noticed that i could
>> > not change the "boot flag " to "on" it was off and i hit several
>> > enters but it stays off. so i just continued with off. now when
>> > installation completed . setup stops at grup installation and throw
>> > an error "grub-install /dev/sda failed its a fatal error "
>> >
>> > any idea why this?
>> >
>> > i never face this type of error before. please help.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>>
>>
>> ok i fdisk the the partition via recovery CD clonezilla. but all the
>> partitions doesn't reflect in installation it is showing the old
>> partition structure however when i go to shell and check things via
>> FDISK it showed me the new created parttiion with boot flag on which i
>> have create via commandline.
>>
>> Please help
>
> ..try cfdisk, it "gives you eyes."
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