On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan <sir...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Arnt Karlsen <a...@c2i.net> wrote: >> On Tue, 8 May 2012 17:08:10 +0500, Muhammad wrote in message >> <cagwvfmmmgbswr+zt1sha8wrdv0wtmdc6_c00i2+k4msdh48...@mail.gmail.com>: >>> 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 " >>> >>> 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. >> >> ..try cfdisk, it "gives you eyes." > > cfdisk to 2tb Drive give me this > > Warning!! Unsupported GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected. Use GNU Parted. > > since things were not booting up with 2TB so i just installed 320 GB > HD so that things start well however after installation and after > successful boot. when i cfdisk the primary partition it give me this > error . > > FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 2: Partition ends in the final partial > cylind > Press any key to exit cfdisk
Please bottom post. So you are using GPT. You have to use either parted or gdisk with that label. -- 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=SyFpxWNReBMrtNn=br2u9c1hr_hn6qssqlvtt_pdzq...@mail.gmail.com