Hello!
I have migrated to grub2 from grub-legacy, and have had a working
installation in a virtual machine for a while. Today I updated the
Debian wheezy installation, and now grub-install to /dev/vda fails with
the following error:
/usr/sbin/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..
/usr/sbin/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..
/usr/sbin/grub-setup: error: will not proceed with blocklists.
This is a virtio disk from KVM, and should only have a basic partition
table that was created on install. fdisk -l /dev/vda confirms that with
the following information:
Disk /dev/vda: 6442 MB, 6442450944 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12483 cylinders, total 12582912 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: 0x000d70a5
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/vda1 * 2048 8386559 4192256 83 Linux
I haven't tried to boot this virtual machine yet. I also haven't tried
the --force flag, since I shouldn't be restricted to using blocklists. I
can grub-install to another device, /dev/sda, but for some reason the
actual boot device doesn't work anymore as a target for grub-install.
I'm sorry if this problem would be more suited to Debian mailing lists.
Regards,
Juha Kallio
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