Re: Help with GPT
ha <hiei.arhiva@gmail.com> wrote:
> Last few weekends I struggled with the GPT. I've tried to install
> debian 7.2 from live DVD (but booting from USB). However, at the end
> of installation I always receive the message "Grub-pc package failed
> to install into /target/", or something like that. Now, I'm aware that
> I can solve this by booting to rescue mode, doing grub-install, chroot
> into the instaled system and simply update grub. However, I'm getting
> really pissed of by this "post-installation tweaking", and my lack of
> knowledge on how to avoid it. So I must humbly ask If someone knows a
> way around this, i.e. how to persuade the debian installer to install
> grub.
With a GPT you _need_ to have a small partition (1MiB is enough) marked
as "bios_grub" or "BIOS boot partition" of type EF02 to be able to
install GRUB.
This is needed because with a GPT there is no "hole" or free space after
the MBR and the beginning of the first partition.
Grüße,
Sven.
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Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.
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