false alarm, although I don't understand what really happened. check on
the fat partition with gparted made it magically work
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Unable to install grub2 onto vfat partition
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/401971
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I can't seem to get it done,
I issue grub-installl --modules=fat --rootdirectory=/media/00/ /dev/sdb
Now when I boot from it, it halts in rescue mode ("grub rescue>"),
stating that it is a invalid partition
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Unable to install grub2 onto vfat partition
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/40197
This bug was fixed in the package grub2 - 1.96+20090725-1ubuntu1
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grub2 (1.96+20090725-1ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low
* New upstream version.
+ Fixes offering Windows (LP: #402795)
+ Fixes Vista/Win7 fails to boot (LP: #402154)
+ Fixes installation onto VFAT (LP: #4019
Hi Felix:
Thanks for tracking down this fix. I just compiled the new upload you
put in debian on a karmic sbuild, formatted the partition and tried it
all again. Works properly now. So as soon as karmic a3's soft freeze
is up, can merge with you guys.
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Unable to install grub2 onto vfat part
I just uploaded now a new version to Debian sid which contains this bugfix.
But it's strange that grub-probe already failed to detect it as valid fat fs.
Could you plesae attach a dump of first 512 bytes of it?
You can get it with `sudo dd if=/dev/sda2 of=fat.bs count=1 bs=512'. It's in
fat.bs the
If grub-probe fails to detect it, then real grub probable won't work with it
either.
In the current version there's a bug with installing to FAT32 which actually
could destroy the filesystem.
It's fixed upstream since 2009-07-15, but there's not even a Debian upload
which includes this yet.
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Might also be useful:
# sudo grub-probe -d /dev/sda2 --verbose
grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 625142448
grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 625142448
grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 625142448
grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 625142448
grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 7936000
gr
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/29307126/Dependencies.txt
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Unable to install grub2 onto vfat partition
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/401971
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