On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 09:29:55AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:12:37PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 08:13:26AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > Back to the core of my issues. I went through a manual partitionning, and > > > didn't create a boot partition for the grub core image, assuming I was > > > creating an MBR partition. It turned out, in the end, that GRUB failed > > > because of that, because the partition table was GPT. I didn't see > > > anything > > > about GPT being used (or maybe wasn't paying too much attention), and > > > surely > > > the partitioner could issue a warning that no such partition was created > > > and > > > that the risk is that GRUB can't be installed. > > > > Oh I forgot to add this: the installed fdisk is pointless as the only > > thing it can do is tell you to use parted, which supports GPT... except > > parted is not installed. If the install is done on GPT, shouldn't parted > > be installed (or any other fdisk equivalent supporting GPT) > > Was this a blank unused HD or had something else already been installed > before? > > How big is the HD? > > I have not seen Debian efault to GPT unless the disk was over 2TB before, > or unless windows 7 had already chosen to make it GPT.
The disk is a new one, though I didn't check if there was a pre-existing partitioning (but I really doubt it). OTOH, the disk is 2000GB, which is not quite over 2TB, but close enough that it may have mattered. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100923133908.ga6...@glandium.org
