On 08/05/2011 10:17 AM, Braden Pellett wrote: > > On Aug 4, 2011, at 4:57 PM, Alex Mandel wrote: > >> Anyone know what tricks are required to get a GPT based 3TB drive to >> boot with grub2 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS? > > I may be wading in here over my head, but when I had to do something similar > with 2TB drives on a Debian Squeeze installation, I used "parted" to make a > small (1 MB) initial "bios_grub" partition on the bootable drive (from > parted, "set 1 bios_grub on"), then installed grub on that via > "dpkg_reconfigure grub-pc". > > - Braden >
That is the solution that worked. The key is to do it before you try to do the install. I used PartedMagic Live CD and then followed with the Ubuntu install. Apparently grub2 finds the bios_grub flag and knows to shove itself there for GTP instead of doing the usual MBR. I plan to write up a more clear explanation and will post a link when I'm done. Thanks, Alex _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
