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Re: squeeze on 2TB drive



I dont think it is one of those types of drives afaik.

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com> wrote:
> chris wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to setup squeeze on a machine with a WD2001FAS (2TB). The
>> first problem I am having is that when I initialize the drive it
>> doesn't prompt me for MBR/GPT so I assume its doing GPT? Secondly,
>> when I create my first partition it is 8GB, ext4, I cannot make it
>> bootable. I continue the install and grub fails to install on sda. I
>> tried playing with the SATA mode in the bios ide/sata/ahci, no luck.
>>
>> Is this something thats happening due the size? Is this one of those
>> drives with a weird sector size and maybe thats doing it? Why does
>> grub fail? Can I somehow get the installer do install grub1 instead?
>>
>> Any insight would be greatly appreaciated
>>
>
> Does this help at all?
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/12/msg00880.html
>
> Hugo
>
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