I did fix the grub with setting up a BIOS Boot partition.. My concern is not much as getting grub installed vs if LDM code (where they may be either with grub or the kernel) is safe.. Afaik ldm code is still a wip..
To Phillip and whoever is in charge of this thread.. I paid close attention to why an EFI partition is there-- OsX set it up.. and I don't use it that efi partition for the boot.. You see I don't have an EFI bios(It was installed there because the OSx is fooled into thinking there's a real EFI bios but there isn't.. this is because the Chameleon bootloader injects smart stuff into ram to fool the OsX installer, Chameleon is an osx86 project to get OsX work on pc), but in order for grub-pc to boot on GPT it needs that BIOS Boot Partition.. No problem I made a 1 Meg partition (enough bit space for grub).. So grub-pc with grub-install /dev/sdc injected bootcode into the mbr and i bet as well into that reserved partition of 1 M i made for it.. What unbalanced me, is this was the first time I'm using a linux software raid setup with this much complexity of being shared with an Osx86 install(and which btw I have software raid setup with OsX as well and it boots beautifully-- simply i've transfered chameleon's stage1 boot0 bootloader in an empty new partition of 1Meg-- this boot0 get's chainloaded from grub). I have done multiple boot systems with grub and lilo but WITHOUT raid partitions.. (installing bootloaders for non-raid is much easier, and have only done with dosmbr).. What I couldn't determine is what I can do with the EFI partition that was automatically made by OsX.. From my understanding (correct me if i'm wrong), an EFI partition does not have to be made on a GPT disk, if that GPT disk is used on a PC bios machine. Seriously phcoder. Grub has its share of bugs, like it or not. You have to accept the fact the output of /dev/sda or /dev/sdb is plain useless and confusing (*especially in my case where I'm working and ****TRYING**** to avoid*** touching those ldm drives).. Parted too has it's share of bugs.. and I don't know if this was due to LDM code in the kernel, why parted was choking (AND gparted too was showing a complete blank drive for /dev/sda saying a partition table not found..) Phillip Susi (psusi) "Normally the installer automatically figures this out, but I guess in your case it didn't." I couldn't agree any more that this is what happened with me.. Ubuntu complains if an "/" mountpoint is not specified and prevents the user from clicking the next phase.. And I don't know if this should be addressed or passed to the installation development team to fix the partitioning part because I'm not using any efi hardware.. Grub-install has output of errors-- it should rather say 'Bios Boot Partition' (If it did I obviously wouldn't be needing the insults from phCoder<< and people like this are not helpful and know very little of the whole problem) There's virtually absolutely nobody who has (and I was totally stepping into unchartered territory having no idea if it would work) an OSX86 software raid partitions drives (just the drives are shared of course) being shared with Linux software RAID partitions with GPT Tables (though it might be possible to have Osx86 use raid partitions on dosmbr drive). Absolutely nowhere. No need to be rude saying.. oh RTFM. That's rude and so against the spirit of a working community who are only trying to help out. Seriously.. " If you enable LDM support, then lilo is capable of booting from any of the discovered partitions. However, grub does not understand the LDM partitioning and cannot boot from a Dynamic Disk. " http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/ldm.txt http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html has no information concerning the above quote about safely using LDM. Also, to whomever it may concern, parted and gparted exhibit problems when listing ldm drives. I can only have speculated because of this observation I was getting more unnecessary dumb output with grub itself. Again.. nothing about "ldm" anywhere on gnu.org's grub manual site.. And this is funny too, especially hearing phcoder telling me on irc that "ldm is a joke". So where are the LDM docs in the grub manual big guy? I wish to RTFM more. Tell me, why not fix grub to show something other than " error * " , so that we can at least RTFM FOR OURSELVES.. No you just want "error" in the output and make us guess as to what the problem is. So helpful .. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1015557 Title: grub-install fails when ldm drives are present To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1015557/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
