On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Oliver Friedrich <[email protected]> wrote: > beowulf@seashell:~$ sudo LANG=C parted -l > Model: Generic STORAGE DEVICE (scsi) > Disk /dev/sdb: 32.1GB > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B > Partition Table: msdos > > Number Start End Size Type File system Flags > 1 1049kB 32.1GB 32.1GB primary fat32 >
>From that, it doesn't look like you have multiple partition tables, but you may have stale fat signatures (from previously putting a fat32 filesystem on the whole device, without any partition table) which grub-install is seeing. When grub-install sees what looks like both a partition table and a filesystem it can't be sure that it's safe to embed grub. There is probably a subtler and less destructive way to remove just the fat signatures, but if you don't mind losing the data currently on the drive then running "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M count=1" will zero the first MiB of the drive, *destroying the current partition table and making all files on the drive currently inaccessible*. After zeroing the first MiB of the drive you should be able to partition it again and install grub without any problem. -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
