Installing 10.04 to 2TB disk, does not boot

[Christopher Chan]

On Tuesday, May 18, 2010 09:01 PM, Dave Howorth wrote:
> Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
>> Dave Howorth wrote:
>>> Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
>>>>> Then I would just start a fresh install and leave everything to the
>>>>> installer and hope it knows what it's doing! :)  (unless there are known
>>>>> problems) Just my 2p.
>>>>>
>>>> There are. See previous posts.
>>> Would you mind pointing out the specific message?
>>
>> The OP used the alternate installer because he wanted RAID
>
> Right, but Matthias is not using RAID for this attempt.

Well, we don't know that. He has five 2TB disks if I remember correctly 
and he did not give us the information of everything this time round.


>
>> debian installer does not yet properly support gpt (or at least, the
>> version that ubuntu uses since there does appear to be a fix/recipe for
>> gpt in Debian's some time late last year)
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-base/+bug/506670
>
> I don't really understand all that. It seems to be saying that lucid
> should work as long as there is a grub_bios partition, which Matthias
> has created and as described at
>
> http://grub.enbug.org/BIOS_Boot_Partition

That's assuming the installer did everything else correctly...right now, 
an error message claiming no bootable disk seems to indicate zero 
installation of grub to any MBR of his disks...


>
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=409073
>
> I'm not yet very familiar with Ubuntu. That link seems to show a fix in
> grub2 1.95+20070505-1 as of June 2007, or am I misunderstanding it? And
> lucid uses 1.98? As at:

Nope. That is a report FROM June 2007 with what looks like a fix 
sometime last year.


>
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/en/source/lucid/grub2
>
> Did the fix get lost somewhere?

How should I know? I have no idea which version of the installer lucid 
uses. The problem, by the way, is not with grub2.


>
> So I'm still not understanding what the problem is for a non-RAID lucid
> install where the grub_bios partition has been created?
>

It is down to this: Does the installer, whether the Ubuntu installer on 
the LiveCD or the debian installer on the alternate cd, know how to 
ensure a working installation of grub2 on a gpt partition based disk 
when the computer does not use EFI firmware but BIOS firmware.