Re: debian 6.0.4 grub installation failed.
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan <sirtcp@gmail.com> wrote:
> cfdisk to 2tb Drive give me this
>
> Warning!! Unsupported GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected. Use GNU Parted.
>
> since things were not booting up with 2TB so i just installed 320 GB
> HD so that things start well however after installation and after
> successful boot. when i cfdisk the primary partition it give me this
> error .
>
> FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 2: Partition ends in the final partial cylind
> Press any key to exit cfdisk
>
FYI : things are working normal no issues at all.
>
> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net> wrote:
>> On Tue, 8 May 2012 17:08:10 +0500, Muhammad wrote in message
>> <[🔎] CAGWVfMmmgBswr+zt1SHA8WrDv0WTmDc6_C00i2+K4msDh48BRg@mail.gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan
>>> <sirtcp@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > i just bought 2TBx2 Harddrives and a computer for making it a
>>> > centralized archiving server. moving forward everything went well
>>> > but during the installation in RAID creating i noticed that i could
>>> > not change the "boot flag " to "on" it was off and i hit several
>>> > enters but it stays off. so i just continued with off. now when
>>> > installation completed . setup stops at grup installation and throw
>>> > an error "grub-install /dev/sda failed its a fatal error "
>>> >
>>> > any idea why this?
>>> >
>>> > i never face this type of error before. please help.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>> ok i fdisk the the partition via recovery CD clonezilla. but all the
>>> partitions doesn't reflect in installation it is showing the old
>>> partition structure however when i go to shell and check things via
>>> FDISK it showed me the new created parttiion with boot flag on which i
>>> have create via commandline.
>>>
>>> Please help
>>
>> ..try cfdisk, it "gives you eyes."
>>
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