From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Grub2 problem?
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:54:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090722175454.GN8706@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1248187353.7790.1.camel@fz.local>
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 04:42:33PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote:
>
> The picture clearly shows that he has now to use --force option if he
> really wants blocklists.
I wonder why did that person get this error. The message quoted below
suggests this is a GPT, but the error message says MSDOS-style label.
Perhaps this is an hybrid label? GRUB should recognize this as GPT, but
it seems that it recognizes it as MSDOS-style instead.
> > Subject: 6.2 alpha: grub install failure
> > Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:31:22 +0100
> > From: M.S.Colclough <m.s.colclough@bham.ac.uk>
> > Reply-To: zenwalk-vip@lists.zenwalk.org
> > To: zenwalk-vip@lists.zenwalk.org
> >
> >
> >
> > I installed 6.2 alpha on a pc that had 6.0 and lilo (no previous install
> > problems). All defaults, Autopartition, followed by grub to MBR.
> > "Something went wrong" said the message. Indeed it has: installation
> > looks OK, but unbootable (a broken lilo message: L 99). sg2conf.log
> > mutters about no post-mbr gap (see attached screenshot).
> >
> > Somebody on the archlinux forums suggests "parted 1 set bios_grub on".
> > I didn't try this because parted on the install disk is broken (no
> > libparted)
> >
> > Mark
> >
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> >
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> Felix Zielcke
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-21 14:27 Grub2 problem? BandiPat
2009-07-21 14:42 ` Felix Zielcke
2009-07-22 17:54 ` Robert Millan [this message]
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