Installing 10.04 to 2TB disk, does not boot

[Karl Larsen]

On 05/18/2010 07:01 AM, Dave Howorth wrote:
> 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
>
>    
     Your not dense Dave. I have I Think learned that the new 2TB hard 
drive does not accept the old standard DOS message for the boot section 
of the hard drive.  It needs a gpt message. Alas the Ubuntu software 
does not know how generate and use gpt. Perhaps in the next version.

     The work around is to force grub to use a partition edge to boot 
from. Grub can do this and it has worked for years under Grub1 and I 
assume Grub2. It is a bit clutzy but it works.


73 Karl


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