Hi Garb, Sorry for following up as late as that. First of all, using gpt-bios is indeed the proposed way to go, and hacking a bios_grub flag somehow into your config really is a *hack*, because this is exactly what gpt-bios is supposed to take care of.
> Hi again, > > here is some more information: > I now could run "gdisk -l /dev/sda" on the Ubuntu 10.04, which I installed > with fai and which is not booting: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.5.1 > > Partition table scan: > MBR: protective > BSD: not present > APM: not present > GPT: present > > Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT. > Disk /dev/sda: 23437369344 sectors, 10.9 TiB > Disk identifier (GUID): EF622145-AA15-406D-924E-EF9D566D5CF3 > Partition table holds up to 128 entries > First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 23437369310 > Total free space is 29 sectors (14.5 KiB) > > Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name > 1 63 409662 200.0 MiB 0700 primary > 2 409663 8798270 4.0 GiB 8200 primary > 3 8798271 23437369070 10.9 TiB 0700 primary > 4 23437369071 23437369310 120.0 KiB EF02 primary > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > There are a /boot-Partition on 1, a swap-Partiton on 2 and a /-partition on > 3 with 11TByte. The fourth partition was added by setup-storage because of > the "gpt-bios" disclabel. Unlike the partition table generated by the Ubuntu > Installer-CD, the free space is only 29 sectors, the bios-partition is at > the end and its size is smaller. > [...] Most probably you're the first one using gpt-bios, as nobody ever reported back on that feature. Those problems therefore don't come that unexpected, but I'll happily try to get them resolved. I have now added a patch to our experimental builds which moves the partition to the front and makes it 1MB in size. Could you please give those new packages a try? It's version 4.0~beta2+experimental3. You can obtain the experimental packages as described at http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/Main_Page#getting_FAI Thanks in advance, Michael
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