On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan <sir...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 6:20 PM, <dage...@free.fr> wrote: >> De: "Muhammad Yousuf Khan" <sir...@gmail.com> >> Envoyé: Mardi 8 Mai 2012 14:08:10 >>> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan >>> <sir...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > i just bought 2TBx2 Harddrives and a computer for making it a >>> > centralized archiving server. moving forward everything went well >>> > but >>> > during the installation in RAID creating i noticed that i could not >>> > change the "boot flag " to "on" it was off and i hit several >>> > enters >>> > but it stays off. so i just continued with off. now when >>> > installation >>> > completed . setup stops at grup installation and throw an error >>> > "grub-install /dev/sda failed its a fatal error " >>> >>> ok i fdisk the the partition via recovery CD clonezilla. but all the >>> partitions doesn't reflect in installation it is showing the old >>> partition structure however when i go to shell and check things via >>> FDISK it showed me the new created parttiion with boot flag on which >>> i have create via commandline. >> >> I had a similar problem recently with a SATA 3, 2 TB harddrive. >> Squeeze installed properly, grub installed properly. >> But when updating to wheezy (with a new grub version), grub >> didn't wanted to install on the MBR. >> Try to make a free partition at the start of the HD. > > by the way when i am creating partition via fdisk on 2TB HD . it > showed that my starting block is 2048. instead of 1. i dont know why. > however when i create the partition. via FDISK it gives me an error > when i fdisk -l /dev/sda. like "Partition does not start on physical > sector boundary" it happens when i create partition via installation > CD. however when i create via fdisk via clonezilla CD and try to > installed debian on these partition. installation doest recognize the > partition. it shows drive is empty.
Please bottom post. 2048 is the new default in order to have the cylinders and sectors match. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=szn6m_c+zbijlsef3my6mxaognfdyobsqvdpajjceg...@mail.gmail.com
