I changed a little my partition layout since your letter, but this didn't helped.
$ sudo parted -l Model: ATA ST3400620AS (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 400GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Disk Flags: Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 475MB 21.5GB 21.1GB primary ext4 2 21.6GB 36.9GB 15.4GB primary ext4 boot 3 37.7GB 367GB 329GB extended lba 5 39.9GB 116GB 76.2GB logical ntfs 6 116GB 119GB 2973MB logical linux-swap(v1) 7 119GB 367GB 247GB logical ext4 4 367GB 400GB 33.3GB primary ntfs 2012/3/6 Jordan Uggla <[email protected]> > On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Артём Алексюк <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hello. > > I'm using Grub1.99 (pc version, Archlinux) and there are some problems > with > > it. I used testdisk some time ago, maybe it's a reason of this problem. > > Grub0.x and Windows's loader are working OK. > > > > $ sudo grub-install /dev/sda > > /usr/sbin/grub-setup: error: hostdisk//dev/sda appears to contain a udf > > filesystem which isn't known to reserve space for DOS-style boot. > Installing > > GRUB there could result in FILESYSTEM DESTRUCTION if valuable data is > > overwritten by grub-setup (--skip-fs-probe disables this check, use at > your > > own risk). > > > > $ sudo grub-setup --skip-fs-probe /dev/sda > > grub-setup: warn: Attempting to install GRUB to a disk with multiple > partition > > labels or both partition label and filesystem. This is not supported > yet.. > > grub-setup: warn: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installed > in > > this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and > their > > use is discouraged.. > > grub-setup: error: will not proceed with blocklists. > > > > In both of these cases it's probably that you have left over bits from > previous filesystems/partition tables which make it impossible for > grub to ensure safety. We need to figure out what remnants grub is > seeing, and remove them (this will also likely affect other utilities > and so is a good thing to prevent data corruption in general). > > > $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda > > > > Disk /dev/sda: 400.1 GB, 400088457216 bytes > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders, total 781422768 sectors > > Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > > Disk identifier: 0x05f2265b > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/sda1 * 2048 42088447 21043200 83 Linux > > /dev/sda2 42090300 72144895 15027298 83 Linux > > /dev/sda3 73593765 716466869 321436552+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) > > /dev/sda4 716466870 781417654 32475392+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT > > /dev/sda5 77979573 226821734 74421081 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT > > /dev/sda6 226821798 232628223 2903213 82 Linux swap / Solaris > > /dev/sda7 233119278 716466869 241673796 83 Linux > > Please provide the output of "sudo parted -l". Parted is familiar with > filesystems and is aware of many more partition labels than fdisk, and > will hopefully give us an error message which is more useful to fixing > the problem. > > -- > Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) >
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