Re: Fw: Grub cannot see my new hard drive

2020-07-02 Thread David Wright
On Thu 02 Jul 2020 at 08:12:00 (+), Matthew Campbell wrote: > On Jul 1, 2020, 7:50 PM, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 17 Jun 2020 at 05:14:22 (+), Matthew Campbell wrote: > >> […] > >> I booted from a USB 2.0 flash drive into Grub2. > >> […] > >> /dev/sdb is the new 4 TB Toshiba External US

Re: Fw: Grub cannot see my new hard drive

2020-07-02 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-07-02 01:12, Matthew Campbell wrote: The 4 TB hard drive uses a GPT type partition table, not an MBR type table, which is why the computer can't see it. It can't make sense of GPT tables. It is a Toshiba Satellite laptop. Satellite P105-S6187, model number PSPAAU-01L00S. I just ordered

Re: Fw: Grub cannot see my new hard drive

2020-07-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Matthew Campbell wrote: > The 4 TB hard drive uses a GPT type partition table, not an MBR type table, > which is why the computer can't see it. It can't make sense of GPT tables. Not knowing what's actually causing your problem, i have to doubt this theory. If the machine's firmware has no c

Re: Fw: Grub cannot see my new hard drive

2020-06-17 Thread deloptes
Matthew Campbell wrote: > My computer cannot see a GPT partition table. I've had to use a dos MBR > partition table on my USB flash drives. I mount my file systems as > read-only first so I can check them after booting before remounting them > read-write. I am sorry to say it, but you are not abl

Re: Fw: Grub cannot see my new hard drive

2020-06-13 Thread deloptes
The Wanderer wrote: > That's *probably* not a problem relative to the fact that this is a USB3 > external hard drive, but it certainly can't be helping. I am not sure, but I think there were 686 BIOSes that could not see 4TB disks

Re: Fw: Grub cannot see my new hard drive

2020-06-13 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-06-13 at 18:44, David Christensen wrote: [that on 2020-06-13 at 15:38, Matthew Campbell wrote:] >> /dev/sda: Toshiba MK1234GS, 111.8 GiB (Internal) >> /dev/sr0: MATSHITADVD-RAM UJ-850S , DVD R/W (Internal IDE) >> /dev/sdb: Toshiba External USB 3.0 3.7 TiB >> /dev/sdc: PNY 32 USB 2.0 FD 28

Re: Fw: Grub cannot see my new hard drive

2020-06-13 Thread David Christensen
Matthew Campell -- Whatever client software you are using for e-mail, it is not indenting previous message content when you reply. This makes it very hard to follow the conversation, especially when there are replies to replies, to replies, to replies, etc.. Rather than trying to fix the prob