Bug#597799: installation-report: GPT related issues
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 08:13:26AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> Back to the core of my issues. I went through a manual partitionning, and
> didn't create a boot partition for the grub core image, assuming I was
> creating an MBR partition. It turned out, in the end, that GRUB failed
> because of that, because the partition table was GPT. I didn't see anything
> about GPT being used (or maybe wasn't paying too much attention), and surely
> the partitioner could issue a warning that no such partition was created and
> that the risk is that GRUB can't be installed.
Oh I forgot to add this: the installed fdisk is pointless as the only
thing it can do is tell you to use parted, which supports GPT... except
parted is not installed. If the install is done on GPT, shouldn't parted
be installed (or any other fdisk equivalent supporting GPT)
Mike
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