Re: debian 6.0.4 grub installation failed.

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 08 May 2012 16:02:10 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan 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.

The error (at least the "message" because the underlying problem can be 
of a different nature) is documented here:

http://wiki.debian.org/GrubRecover

Check if the suggested steps help (take care of adjusting the commands 
for your GRUB version).

Besides, if you are using raid 1 don't forget installing GRUB in both 
disks which are part of the array so the system can be automatically 
booted in the event one of them go down.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón