Bug#597799: installation-report: GPT related issues

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:12:37PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> 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)

Was this a blank unused HD or had something else already been installed
before?

How big is the HD?

I have not seen Debian efault to GPT unless the disk was over 2TB before,
or unless windows 7 had already chosen to make it GPT.

-- 
Len Sorensen