On 05/16/2018 02:48 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> During my testing end of February/beginning of March this partition was >> needed, because otherwise the gpt label was corrupted after grub-install ran >> IIRC - i.e. similar to what you saw. I don't know the exact size >> requirements for this partition though, so just rounded up to 10 MiB which >> worked fine. > > Ah, this makes sense. I'll see whether I can add this type manually.
Ok, just adding a 10 MB bios_grub partition resolved the issue and GRUB installed without any problems :). root@debian:~# parted /dev/vdiska GNU Parted 3.2 Using /dev/vdiska Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) p Model: Unknown (unknown) Disk /dev/vdiska: 17.2GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/8192B Partition Table: gpt Disk Flags: Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 1049kB 10.5MB 9437kB bios_grub 2 10.5MB 15.2GB 15.2GB ext4 3 15.2GB 17.2GB 1968MB linux-swap(v1) (parted) >> I submitted a patch ([2]) which adds specific recipes for gpt capable >> systems which add the additional 10 MiB partition. Partman than creates this >> partition after the first 1 MiB on the disk in question. The post also >> contains an alternative approach which might also work (i.e. just extending >> the sparc recipes). > > Yes, there are some things I wanted to test first before adopting the patch. Adding those recipes for partman-auto will resolve the issue. However, we should probably add a warning like we had for SILO which reminds users they have to add a bios_grub partition on a GPT machine: > https://anonscm.debian.org/git/d-i/attic/silo-installer.git/tree/check.d/silo_check Does any of the other architectures which use GRUB require a bios_grub partition? If yes, we should just add sparc and sparc64 to this test. Otherwise, we will have to add it from scratch, probably to the grub-installer package. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
