Re: Grub2 problem?

[Robert Millan]

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 <address@hidden>
> >    Reply-To: address@hidden
> >    To: address@hidden
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 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
> > 
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