Installing 10.04 to 2TB disk, does not boot

[Karl Larsen]

On 05/19/2010 05:40 AM, Dave Howorth wrote:
> Christopher Chan wrote:
>    
>>> 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.
>>      
> I thought it was pretty clear when he wrote
>
>    
>> - The above tests were done with only one disk installed (the Tranquil
>> PC Barebones Server will take up to 5 disks).
>>      
>    
>>>> 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...
>>      
> That's one of the points I don't understand. As I understand the page
> above, the installer doesn't need to understand anything at all. It just
> tells grub to install in the MBR as usual and *grub* then notices the
> GPT and the grub_bios partition and installs appropriately. So the
> installer doesn't need to even recognize the fact that the disk has a
> GPT, let alone have to do anything about it. But maybe I'm misreading
> the article.
>
>    
>>>> 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.
>>      
> I still don't follow that, sorry. All the dates I see in message 18 are
> 2007. It's a very confusing layout to me. Where does it say 2009? I'd
> like to be able to read the bug reports properly!
>
>    
>> 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.
>>      
> Indeed. As I explained above, I don't think the installer needs to know.
> It just needs to tell grub to install in the MBR in the traditional way.
> But who knows :)
>
> Cheers, Dave
>
>    
         Ubuntu said it can't work with the new MBR format. Maybe next 
version.


73 Karl


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