Am Mittwoch, 12. Oktober 2011 schrieb Kurt Flex: > Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> writes: > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Kurt Flex <flx...@aol.com> wrote: > >> # grub-install /dev/sda > >> /usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: This msdos-style partition label has > >> no post-MBR gap; embedding won't be possible!. > >> /usr/sbin/grub-setup: error: embedding is not possible, but this is > >> required when the root device is on a RAID array or LVM volume. > > > > As the error message says, you don't have a "post-MBR gap". Your > > first partition starts too early. Typically, the first partition is > > preceded by 63 sectors of 512 bytes, The first sector is the MBR and > > the next 62 are the post-MBR gap in which both grub1 and grub2 save > > an image that can read a filesystem and therefore locate and boot a > > kernel. > > > > What I don't understand is that this has happened after running > > "aptitude safe-upgrade". How was grub2 booting your system before > > running aptitude?! > > After reading the other replies that is the question I'm also asking to > myself. Well I haven't setup the server myself, it's a rented server > und was installed by the lessor.
grub2 could use a blocklist (as lilo did), but thats unsafe. or as hinted by Tom it might be a VM and no grub is required at all. -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201110122003.45573.mar...@lichtvoll.de
