Aw: Re: Re: grub does not detect partition 5 on new USB-WD My Passport 1TB

2019-07-19 Thread Peter Littmann
I created some partions and checked them in grub console, now it seems grub can detect the right device size but can not handle partitions on the other side of the 128GB border.   peter@mediondt:~$ LANG=C sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 931.5 GiB, 1000170586112 bytes, 1953458176 sectors D

Aw: Re: Re: grub does not detect partition 5 on new USB-WD My Passport 1TB

2019-07-19 Thread Peter Littmann
  I did ls -l and get the following results:   hd0: size 976729088 KiB   (USB) hd1: size 976762584 KiB   (internal)   Both have 1TB so this seems to be okay, right?   Which tests can I do further? Which fdisk is best to use? Normally I prefer Gparted.   Any idea?   Best regards, Peter

Aw: Re: Re: grub does not detect partition 5 on new USB-WD My Passport 1TB

2019-07-18 Thread Peter Littmann
    Gesendet: Donnerstag, 18. Juli 2019 um 18:19 Uhr Von: "Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko" An: "Peter Littmann" Cc: bug-grub@gnu.org Betreff: Re: Re: grub does not detect partition 5 on new USB-WD My Passport 1TB On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 6:17 PM Peter Littmann wr

Re: Re: grub does not detect partition 5 on new USB-WD My Passport 1TB

2019-07-18 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 6:17 PM Peter Littmann wrote: > > You mean doing "ls -l" in a booted Linux? > Accessing the disk from within Linux is not the problem. > I installed Linux(Ubuntu/Manjaro/Arch) some times to this disk and all wents > good. But at boot time grub2 is not be able to detect/co

Aw: Re: grub does not detect partition 5 on new USB-WD My Passport 1TB

2019-07-18 Thread Peter Littmann
You mean doing "ls -l" in a booted Linux? Accessing the disk from within Linux is not the problem. I installed Linux(Ubuntu/Manjaro/Arch) some times to this disk and all wents good.  But at boot time grub2 is not be able to detect/connect to the installed system.   Grub2 itself does not provide