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Albion
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 Posted: Tue May 27, 2014 10:30 am Post subject: grub2-install error |
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Good morning, all.
Please note that I just encountered an error when trying to install Grub2 on my computer, as follows:
My partition layout was set-up as follows:
/dev/sda1 EFI
/dev/sda2 /boot
/dev/sda3 Swap
/dev/sda4 /
/dev/sdb1 /home
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livecd init.d # grub2-install /dev/sda
/usr/sbin/grub2-bios-setup: warning: this GPT partition label contains no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be possible.
/usr/sbin/grub2-bios-setup: warning: 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/grub2-bios-setup: error: will not proceed with blocklists.
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Please help.
Thank you in advance for your time and I look forward to hearing back shortly.
Regards,
A. |
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DONAHUE
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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first thought is - don't use grub2, use legacy grub or efistub or syslinux instead - however
boot the install cd/usb, run: | Code: | parted -l | wgetpaste
gdisk -l /dev/sda | wgetpaste |
post the url's returned
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kernelOfTruth
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| Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 9:34 am Post subject: |
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hm,
perhaps some flags are missing ?
here - as follows - my partitioning scheme (with grub2):
| Quote: | parted /dev/sda
GNU Parted 3.1
Using /dev/sda
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) p
Model: ATA INTEL SSD (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 180GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 2097kB 212MB 210MB fat32 boot
2 212MB 528MB 317MB reiserfs
3 528MB 75.2GB 74.7GB
4 75.2GB 180GB 105GB reiserfs
(parted) q |
note that the first partition starts with 2 MB - so there's 2 MB of free space before (a security measure in case grub needs to embed itself there)
| Quote: | gdisk /dev/sda
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.8
Partition table scan:
MBR: protective
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Command (? for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 351651888 sectors, 167.7 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 351651854
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 4077 sectors (2.0 MiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 4096 413695 200.0 MiB EF00
2 413696 1032191 302.0 MiB 0700
3 1032192 146851839 69.5 GiB 0700
4 146851840 351651839 97.7 GiB 0700
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the first partition, the EFI System Partition gets the EF00 flag by simply enabling the "boot" flag on it - the prerequisite is, that you've booted in (U)EFI mode into the live system
take a look at my thread for references:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-991298.html
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