On GPT disk label, grub-install fails with Fatal error. Stage1 not read correctly.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: ubiquity-
Installation source: Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop edition 64bit AMD, iso used.
Disk information: PERC6 RAID5 7TB of Disk, /dev/sda shows 6998GB
Running the desktop install from the liveCD created from the installer source.
Dialog Installing System shows 94% Complete.
Dialog Unable to install GRUB in (hd0), Executing 'grub-install (hd0) failed. This is a fatal error.
Running grub-install manually: (since I am familiar with grub, and grub2)
grub-install --root-
The file /mnt/boot/
If useful here is parted listing for sda: ( and it mounts just fine.)
Disk /dev/sda: 850740cyl
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
BIOS cylinder,
Partition Table: gpt
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 0cyl 832665cyl 832665cyl ext3 boot
2 832665cyl 850740cyl 18074cyl linux-swap
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jan 9 08:49:07 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
Package: yelp 2.20.0-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitec
ProcCmdline: yelp ghelp:about-ubuntu
ProcCwd: /home/ubuntu
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux ubuntu 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 21:45:15 GMT 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Triaged to Incomplete. Looks like a problem with GRUB accessing the MBR of your large drive. It may have something to do with going through the PERC6 RAID controller and 7 TB of disk. Is this really a desktop? What happens when you load the Live CD and choose: Boot from First Hard Disk?