[bug #37631] I cannot grub-install my external hard drive

2013-03-05 Thread Vladimir Serbinenko
Follow-up Comment #13, bug #37631 (project grub): This is drive/USB bridge characteristic. If it's changeable at all, it will probably be jumpers. ___ Reply to this item at: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?37631

[bug #37631] I cannot grub-install my external hard drive

2013-03-03 Thread John Ericson
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

[bug #37631] I cannot grub-install my external hard drive

2013-03-03 Thread Vladimir Serbinenko
Follow-up Comment #11, bug #37631 (project grub): Do you have a BIOS able to boot from 4K-sectored disks? In 2.00 (latest release) and bzr (latest developpement) there is partial support for such disks but I haven't seen any BIOS machine able to boot from such disks. Do you see this disk in

[bug #37631] I cannot grub-install my external hard drive

2013-03-03 Thread John Ericson
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

[bug #37631] I cannot grub-install my external hard drive

2013-02-28 Thread John Ericson
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) ___ Additional Item Attachment: File name: part1

[bug #37631] I cannot grub-install my external hard drive

2013-02-28 Thread Vladimir Serbinenko
Follow-up Comment #6, bug #37631 (project grub): What do you mean installing on both? Using --boot-directory? And both times unknown filesystem ? ___ Reply to this item at: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?37631

[bug #37631] I cannot grub-install my external hard drive

2013-02-28 Thread John Ericson
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. ___ Reply to this item at:

[bug #37631] I cannot grub-install my external hard drive

2013-02-28 Thread Vladimir Serbinenko
Follow-up Comment #8, bug #37631 (project grub): Can you paste the output of fdisk -l, especially sector size and grub-probe -t fs -v -d /dev/sdb1 and grub-probe -t fs -v -d /dev/sdb2 ___ Reply to this item at:

[bug #37631] I cannot grub-install my external hard drive

2013-02-28 Thread John Ericson
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. ___ Reply to this item at: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?37631

[bug #37631] I cannot grub-install my external hard drive

2013-02-26 Thread Vladimir Serbinenko
Follow-up Comment #4, bug #37631 (project grub): PARTITION!! Not disk ___ Reply to this item at: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?37631 ___ Message sent via/by Savannah

[bug #37631] I cannot grub-install my external hard drive

2013-01-22 Thread John Ericson
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #37631 (project grub): sure! (file #27314) ___ Additional Item Attachment: File name: mymbr Size:64 KB ___ Reply to this item

[bug #37631] I cannot grub-install my external hard drive

2013-01-09 Thread Vladimir Serbinenko
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #37631 (project grub): Can you attach first 64K of the partition in question? ___ Reply to this item at: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?37631 ___ Message sent

[bug #37631] I cannot grub-install my external hard drive

2012-10-24 Thread John Ericson
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

[bug #37631] I cannot grub-install my external hard drive

2012-10-24 Thread John Ericson
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,