Hi , I am trying to install grub (v. 2.02~beta2-22+deb8u1) on a partitionless 4TB HDD which is fully encrypted by luks. Over the luks, I have 3 logical volumes (LVM2), one is for swap, second for
/ and the last one for / home. I have a Debian Jessie 8.6 installed on the setup (in fact I moved an already existing installation to this new 4TB HDD). I am able to boot into the installed system via a grub which is installed on another HDD (sda which has the same version of grub and the same version of Debian). But I've not been able to install grub on this drive (which is /dev/sdb in my setup). I get the following lines: root@debian:/# grub-install --force /dev/sdb >> Installing for i386-pc platform. >> File descriptor 4 (/) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID 1920: >> grub-install >> File descriptor 4 (/) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID 1920: >> grub-install >> File descriptor 4 (/) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID 1920: >> grub-install >> File descriptor 7 (/) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID 1920: >> grub-install >> File descriptor 8 (/) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID 1920: >> grub-install >> grub-install: error: unable to identify a filesystem in >> hostdisk//dev/sdb; safety check can't be performed. >> > If I try with -s flag: root@debian:/# grub-install -s /dev/sdb >> Installing for i386-pc platform. >> File descriptor 4 (/) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID 4091: >> grub-install >> File descriptor 4 (/) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID 4091: >> grub-install >> File descriptor 4 (/) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID 4091: >> grub-install >> File descriptor 7 (/) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID 4091: >> grub-install >> File descriptor 8 (/) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID 4091: >> grub-install >> grub-install: warning: Attempting to install GRUB to a partitionless disk >> or to a partition. This is a BAD idea.. >> grub-install: error: embedding is not possible, but this is required for >> RAID and LVM install. >> > > I have put "GRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK=y" in "/etc/default/grub" and my grub.cfg entry is the same as the one on /dev/sda (which already has grub installed on it. sda is a partitioned drive non-encrypted and non-lvm). Any idea would be much appreciated, Thanks in advance, Hamid _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
