On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 04:40:26PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > I don't know if it was always like that, but the last update of grub2 > failed in the postinst script, because it tried to install into > /dev/sda3 > which was found via > grub-probe --target=device /boot > Yes, all my linux is in /dev/sda3, all of it. The error message is > # grub-install /dev/sda3 > /usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Attempting to install GRUB to a partitionless > disk or to a partition. This is a BAD idea.. > /usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be > installed in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are > UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged.. > /usr/sbin/grub-setup: error: will not proceed with blocklists. > #
The real error may be obtained using 'grub-install --force /dev/sda3', and I strongly suspect that it is along the lines of "error: non-sector-aligned data is found in the core file". See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/972250 > I faintly remember that I *have* installed grub into sda3 before, but > that is no proof I assume. > > Now, installation into the MBR works without a problem, and I am > anyway running it from the MBR. > > So what I see here are two bugs: > * grub is not able to be installed into my /dev/sda3 That is indeed an important regression and I'm working on a fix now. > * postinst is not able to detect that grub is already installed in MBR [...] > * grub-pc/install_devices: > /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD10JPVT-00A1YT0_WD-WXK1A7154276, > /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD10JPVT-00A1YT0_WD-WXK1A7154276-part3 If you don't want to install it to /dev/sda3, then you should run 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc' and select only /dev/sda. At the moment this debconf-show output indicates that you have both /dev/sda and /dev/sda3 selected there, hence why the postinst tried to do this. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
