I had a similar problem recently with a SATA 3, 2 TB harddrive. Squeeze installed properly, grub installed properly. But when updating to wheezy (with a new grub version), grub didn't wanted to install on the MBR. Try to make a free partition at the start of the HD.
----- Mail original ----- > De: "Muhammad Yousuf Khan" <sir...@gmail.com> > À: "debian" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > Envoyé: Mardi 8 Mai 2012 14:08:10 > Objet: Re: debian 6.0.4 grub installation failed. > > ok i fdisk the the partition via recovery CD clonezilla. but all the > partitions doesn't reflect in installation it is showing the old > partition structure however when i go to shell and check things via > FDISK it showed me the new created parttiion with boot flag on which > i > have create via commandline. > > Please help > > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan > <sir...@gmail.com> wrote: > > i just bought 2TBx2 Harddrives and a computer for making it a > > centralized archiving server. moving forward everything went well > > but > > during the installation in RAID creating i noticed that i could not > > change the "boot flag " to "on" it was off and i hit several > > enters > > but it stays off. so i just continued with off. now when > > installation > > completed . setup stops at grup installation and throw an error > > "grub-install /dev/sda failed its a fatal error " > > > > any idea why this? > > > > i never face this type of error before. please help. > > > > Thanks > > > -- > 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/cagwvfmmmgbswr+zt1sha8wrdv0wtmdc6_c00i2+k4msdh48...@mail.gmail.com > > -- 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/1585645016.116170685.1336483206019.javamail.r...@zimbra33-e6.priv.proxad.net
