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Re: debian 6.0.4 grub installation failed.



ok i used the parted command by "mklabel gpt" i created the partition
but i want it to be linux raid. please help me to convert it to raid
since i can not find option in parted to make it a "fd" linux raid
type nor i can find anything related to this topic on google. and
fdisk is not supporting the GPT . so i am stuck kindly help!

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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,
>
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> Camaleón
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