On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 7:02 AM, 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. > > None of my boxes have a partition with the boot flag on. > > Did you use a GPT label?
sorry i am not aware of GPT label, i am not that good. just using the default stuff > > What do your partitions look like? > i am using Raid 1 3 partitions 1 gb for boot 4 gb for swap 200 gb for root and i left rest of the space for further configuration. after installation. > > -- > 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/CAOdo=SzkYgOxNrvKUgZkj9jU=ven5J=SQco7or=qypeofhu...@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/cagwvfmmjkmhm6g0bvaiso-a-0mrb9f4nshaqagc8p5ihr3c...@mail.gmail.com