Re: squeeze on 2TB drive
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:56:23 -0500, chris wrote:
> 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?
Most modern linux systems automatically manage that, no need to tweak or
setup nothing. An old BIOS is the one that can make noise here.
> 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?
I've always experienced problems for installing GRUB in the first
attempt, I mean, on standard disks. When it fails, I select "do not
install a bootloader" and get it from another source (i.e.,
SuperGrubDisk).
Expert installer should ask for the GRUB version to install.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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