Bug#597799: installation-report: GPT related issues
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 09:29:55AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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.
The disk is a new one, though I didn't check if there was a
pre-existing partitioning (but I really doubt it). OTOH, the disk is
2000GB, which is not quite over 2TB, but close enough that it may have
mattered.
Mike
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