Installing 10.04 to 2TB disk, does not boot

[Dave Howorth]

Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
> Dave Howorth wrote:
>> Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
>>>> Then I would just start a fresh install and leave everything to the
>>>> installer and hope it knows what it's doing! :)  (unless there are known
>>>> problems) Just my 2p.
>>>>
>>> There are. See previous posts.
>> Would you mind pointing out the specific message?
> 
> The OP used the alternate installer because he wanted RAID

Right, but Matthias is not using RAID for this attempt.

> debian installer does not yet properly support gpt (or at least, the 
> version that ubuntu uses since there does appear to be a fix/recipe for 
> gpt in Debian's some time late last year)
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-base/+bug/506670

I don't really understand all that. It seems to be saying that lucid
should work as long as there is a grub_bios partition, which Matthias
has created and as described at

http://grub.enbug.org/BIOS_Boot_Partition

> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=409073

I'm not yet very familiar with Ubuntu. That link seems to show a fix in
grub2 1.95+20070505-1 as of June 2007, or am I misunderstanding it? And
lucid uses 1.98? As at:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/en/source/lucid/grub2

Did the fix get lost somewhere?

So I'm still not understanding what the problem is for a non-RAID lucid
install where the grub_bios partition has been created?

Sorry for my denseness,
Dave