On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 04:42:33PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > > The picture clearly shows that he has now to use --force option if he > really wants blocklists.
I wonder why did that person get this error. The message quoted below suggests this is a GPT, but the error message says MSDOS-style label. Perhaps this is an hybrid label? GRUB should recognize this as GPT, but it seems that it recognizes it as MSDOS-style instead. > > Subject: 6.2 alpha: grub install failure > > Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:31:22 +0100 > > From: M.S.Colclough <m.s.colclo...@bham.ac.uk> > > Reply-To: zenwalk-...@lists.zenwalk.org > > To: zenwalk-...@lists.zenwalk.org > > > > > > > > I installed 6.2 alpha on a pc that had 6.0 and lilo (no previous install > > problems). All defaults, Autopartition, followed by grub to MBR. > > "Something went wrong" said the message. Indeed it has: installation > > looks OK, but unbootable (a broken lilo message: L 99). sg2conf.log > > mutters about no post-mbr gap (see attached screenshot). > > > > Somebody on the archlinux forums suggests "parted 1 set bios_grub on". > > I didn't try this because parted on the install disk is broken (no > > libparted) > > > > Mark > > > > -------------------- > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Grub-devel mailing list > > Grub-devel@gnu.org > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > > > -- > Felix Zielcke > > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
