Re: debian 6.0.4 grub installation failed.
Thanks everyone for the kind support after long R&D and your tips help
me to went through the situation.
Thanks every one. :)
just FYI : i am using 320 GB HD for booting the system and 2TBx2
drives are just for RAID and backup the stuff
things are started well. Thanks God :)
Thank you all,
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:15 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan <sirtcp@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 08 May 2012 16:02:10 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan 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 "
>>>
>>> The error (at least the "message" because the underlying problem can be
>>> of a different nature) is documented here:
>>>
>>> http://wiki.debian.org/GrubRecover
>>>
>>> Check if the suggested steps help (take care of adjusting the commands
>>> for your GRUB version).
>>>
>>> Besides, if you are using raid 1 don't forget installing GRUB in both
>>> disks which are part of the array so the system can be automatically
>>> booted in the event one of them go down.
>>
>> ok i used the parted command by "mklabel gpt" i created the partition
>> but i want it to be linux raid. please help me to convert it to raid
>> since i can not find option in parted to make it a "fd" linux raid
>> type nor i can find anything related to this topic on google. and
>> fdisk is not supporting the GPT . so i am stuck kindly help!
>
> Please bottom post.
>
> You don't need to set your partitions to "linux raid" because the
> default metadata for squeeze doesn't need it.
>
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