Hello Martin,
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Martin Michlmayr <[email protected]> wrote: > * Francois Lorrain <[email protected]> [2010-01-11 22:28]: >> I tried to re-install debian on an internal 2.5" drive but it seems >> the installer partition the drive using a GPT partition with type "ee" > > I don't think the installer will use GPT on this platform but maybe > I'm wrong. Can you make the logs from /var/log/installer/ available > somewhere? Also, how big is the disk? > >> I think I partitionned the external SATA drive on a PC before I >> innstalled debian on it. > > So did you install to the internal or external disk? > > -- > Martin Michlmayr > http://www.cyrius.com/ > I did a first install on an external SATA connected drive and this one went fine. I then installed an internal 2.5" hard drive inside the enclosure of the Open-Rd and tried to install debian on it using the same procedure. I think the 2.5" HDD had an EFI partition to start with. Then the install goes fine but at the end the U-Boot only sees the GPT with partition type EE. When I boot on the external hard drive into Debian, I can see the partitions on the 2.5" drive inside but Uboot cannot boot from them. When doing fdisk/cfdisk from the other debian install, I get a warning about GUID partitions and that I should use parted - but that is not my problem :-) I also connected the 2.5" drive to a regular PC and did a gptsync. Then Uboot can see the partitions but the boot parition was empty, so I am not sure if this is an installer problem. Anyway, at the end, I erased the GPT partition with dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M count=50 - I know this is an overkill and repartitonned using fdisk. It was late yesterday so I didn't finish the whole thing but I am expecting that should work - there is no more EFI stuff on the disk. I think the existing EFI partition did confuse the installer but I did not keep the installation logs. Regards Francois -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
