Guy Marcenac wrote: > Guy Marcenac a écrit : > > Bob Proulx a écrit : > > > Is there any reason you would not want to install grub to /dev/sda? > > Is there ?
It is your system. Therefore it is impossible for us to know. It is unusual to install to a partition. Therefore the implication is that there must be unusual circumstances that need it. :-) Perhaps you had been dual booting and needed to preserve a 3rd party boot loader? People only very rarely tell the mailing list all of the critical information. Usually we need to extract it by playing twenty questions. > > I am always dreadful of overlapping a partition :( Looking at your partition table: > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/sda1 * 4096 20975616 10485760+ 83 Linux It shows that the start of the first partition is at 4096. Recent installations start at 2048 leaving 1M of space there. (Older installations would start at 63 and were not aligned for Advanced Format drives with 4k sectors.) Your shows 4096 giving 2M of space available there. For example here is from one of my machines: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 2048 999423 498688 fd Linux raid autodetect Your data shows that you have twice as much space there. > > > If that is the decision the select *only* that one location, unselect > > > any other locations, and proceed. > > After lots of reading about grub and the boot gap, I eventualy did it. > Works fine > Thanks for your help Good deal! Glad to hear you are all fixed up now. Bob -- 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/20131021183707.ga5...@hysteria.proulx.com
