On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Averlon <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> I have a configuration with two HDDs.
> First HDD = encrypted Windows (Truecrypt)
> Second HDD = encrypted Ubuntu + encrypted NTFS partition
>
> It worked to boot into ubuntu by selecting the second hdd in the bios
> boot-menue. To boot into ubuntu via the Truecrypt boot-menue does not work
> - but I don't care at the moment.
>
> After some system upgrade (apt-get update && apt-get upgrade) I answered a
> question regarding grub the wrong way and now I am not anymore able to boot
> into ubuntu.
>
> With supergrub-disk I am able to start ubuntu. But I cannot get grub2
> installed on the mbr of the second hdd.
>
> Configuration:
>
> lsblk
> NAME                           MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE  MOUNTPOINT
> sda                              8:0    0  29,8G  0 disk
> ├─sda1                           8:1    0   100M  0 part
> └─sda2                           8:2    0  29,7G  0 part
> sdb                              8:16   0 465,8G  0 disk
> ├─sdb1                           8:17   0     2M  0 part
> ├─sdb2                           8:18   0   200M  0 part  /boot
> ├─sdb3                           8:19   0 152,4G  0 part
> │ └─sdb3_crypt (dm-0)          252:0    0 152,4G  0 crypt
> │   ├─lvm_crypt-swap_nb (dm-1) 252:1    0   4,9G  0 lvm   [SWAP]
> │   └─lvm_crypt-root_nb (dm-2) 252:2    0 147,5G  0 lvm   /
> └─sdb4                           8:20   0 313,2G  0 part
>
>
> grub-setup /dev/sdb
> grub-setup: Warnung: This GPT partition label has no BIOS Boot Partition; 
> embedding won't be possible!.
> grub-setup: Warnung: Einbettung ist nicht möglich. GRUB kann in dieser 
> Konfiguration nur mittels Blocklisten installiert werden. Blocklisten sind 
> allerdings UNZUVERLÄSSIG und deren Verwendung wird daher nicht empfohlen..
> grub-setup: Fehler: mit Blocklisten wird nicht fortgesetzt.
>
> I neither can identify the message I get nor find a solution for that.
>
>
And could you show "fdisk -l /dev/sdb"? GRUB2 believes this is GPT diks. If
it is true, you need to either create BIOS Boot Partition to embed grub2 or
use --force to continues with (not recommended) blocklist.


> To recall: After basic installation of the whole environment it worked. But 
> you might imagine to delete the second hdd and start from scratch is not the 
> very best solution for me.
>
> I would appreciate any help.
>
>
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