On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Juha Kallio <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Help-grub mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
Please post the output of "sudo parted -l" -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
