Re: debian 6.0.4 grub installation failed.
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan <sirtcp@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 6:20 PM, <dagecko@free.fr> wrote:
>> De: "Muhammad Yousuf Khan" <sirtcp@gmail.com>
>> Envoyé: Mardi 8 Mai 2012 14:08:10
>>> 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 "
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> I had a similar problem recently with a SATA 3, 2 TB harddrive.
>> Squeeze installed properly, grub installed properly.
>> But when updating to wheezy (with a new grub version), grub
>> didn't wanted to install on the MBR.
>> Try to make a free partition at the start of the HD.
>
> by the way when i am creating partition via fdisk on 2TB HD . it
> showed that my starting block is 2048. instead of 1. i dont know why.
> however when i create the partition. via FDISK it gives me an error
> when i fdisk -l /dev/sda. like "Partition does not start on physical
> sector boundary" it happens when i create partition via installation
> CD. however when i create via fdisk via clonezilla CD and try to
> installed debian on these partition. installation doest recognize the
> partition. it shows drive is empty.
Please bottom post.
2048 is the new default in order to have the cylinders and sectors match.
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