Follow-up Comment #10, bug #37631 (project grub):
Sorry I took longer than I said I would,
Note: sector size is 4096 (not 512)
Disk /dev/sdb: 3000.6 GB, 3000558944256 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 45599 cylinders, total 732558336 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes
Sector size
Follow-up Comment #12, bug #37631 (project grub):
Yeah, when I saw the sector size after running fdisk that occured to me. I
highly doubt my BIOS is that smart as my computer is 7 years old.
I have 2.00 though so is there any way I could override the settings for the
sake of booting from other
Follow-up Comment #5, bug #37631 (project grub):
Oh sorry. Here are both partitions on the drive (first is NTFS, second is
ext4). I have tried installing on both.
(file #27547, file #27548)
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Follow-up Comment #7, bug #37631 (project grub):
Yes, I have tried --boot-directory and the depricated --root-directory and
something like --directory maybe that isn't on the man page for some
reason.
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Follow-up Comment #9, bug #37631 (project grub):
I am at a different computer now, but I'll do it within the next couple hours.
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Follow-up Comment #3, bug #37631 (project grub):
sure!
(file #27314)
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URL:
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?37631
Summary: I cannot grub-install my external hard drive
Project: GNU GRUB
Submitted by: ericson2314
Submitted on: Thu 25 Oct 2012 04:36:07 AM GMT
Category: Disk amp; Partition
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #37631 (project grub):
I tried the same procedure via an Ubuntu 12.04 live cd, and removing my
internal hard drive so only the external HDD and live CD were preseant. It
failed again, this time with the more descriptive error that GRUB couldn't
recognize the file system,
