Grub error: "will not proceed with blocklists."

[Volker Wysk]

Am Freitag, 5. Januar 2018, 19:44:01 CET schrieb Colin Watson:
> On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 08:13:35PM +0100, Volker Wysk wrote:
> > desktop ~ % LANG=C parted -s /dev/sda print
> > Model: ATA WDC WD40EFRX-68W (scsi)
> > Disk /dev/sda: 4001GB
> > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
> > Partition Table: gpt
> > Disk Flags: 
> > 
> > Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name  Flags
> >  1      1049kB  2097kB  1049kB
> >  2      2097kB  258MB   256MB   ext2
> >  3      258MB   4001GB  4001GB
> [...]
> > /dev/sda1 has the type "Linux Filesystem", as reported by fdisk. Could this be the culprit? It doesn't seem to really contain a filesystem:
> > 
> > desktop /tmp % mkdir sda1
> > desktop /tmp % mount /dev/sda1 sda1
> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
> >        missing codepage or helper program, or other error
> > 
> >        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
> >        dmesg | tail or so.
> 
> It looks to me as though you've just lost the metadata in the partition
> table that indicates that that's the BIOS Boot Partition.  I'd suggest
> following the advice in
> https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/grub.html#GPT to set the
> bios_grub flag on /dev/sda1, then running grub-install again.

That's right. I've set the partition type of sda1 to EF02. Now grub-install works as expected.

Thanks for your help!

Volker