GNU GRUB - Bugs: bug #37631, Disks with 4KiB sectors aren't...
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bug #37631: Disks with 4KiB sectors aren't BIOS-bootable (not fixable unless BIOSes supporting such disks are discovered)
Submitter: | John Ericson <ericson2314> | ||
Submitted: | Thu 25 Oct 2012 04:36:07 AM UTC | ||
Category: | Disk & Partition | Severity: | Major |
Priority: | 1 - Later | Item Group: | Hardware-specific |
Status: | None | Privacy: | Public |
Assigned to: | None | Originator Name: | |
Open/Closed: | Open | Release: | other |
Release: | Reproducibility: | Every Time | |
Planned Release: | 2.03+ |
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Tue 05 Mar 2013 03:23:46 PM UTC, comment #13: |
Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder>![]() |
Mon 04 Mar 2013 05:27:09 AM UTC, comment #12: 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.
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John Ericson <ericson2314> |
Sun 03 Mar 2013 09:57:08 AM UTC, comment #11: 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 bootable disks choice at all? |
Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder>![]() |
Sun 03 Mar 2013 09:19:17 AM UTC, comment #10: Sorry I took longer than I said I would,
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John Ericson <ericson2314> |
Thu 28 Feb 2013 10:00:52 PM UTC, comment #9: I am at a different computer now, but I'll do it within the next couple hours. |
John Ericson <ericson2314> |
Thu 28 Feb 2013 08:45:43 PM UTC, comment #8: 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
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Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder>![]() |
Thu 28 Feb 2013 08:32:27 PM UTC, comment #7: 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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John Ericson <ericson2314> |
Thu 28 Feb 2013 06:59:11 PM UTC, comment #6: What do you mean installing on both? Using --boot-directory? And both times "unknown filesystem" ? |
Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder>![]() |
Thu 28 Feb 2013 06:29:18 PM UTC, comment #5: Oh sorry. Here are both partitions on the drive (first is NTFS, second is ext4). I have tried installing on both. |
John Ericson <ericson2314> |
Tue 26 Feb 2013 09:47:30 PM UTC, comment #4: PARTITION!! Not disk |
Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder>![]() |
Tue 22 Jan 2013 10:45:37 PM UTC, comment #3: sure! |
John Ericson <ericson2314> |
Wed 09 Jan 2013 10:04:42 PM UTC, comment #2: Can you attach first 64K of the partition in question? |
Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder>![]() |
Thu 25 Oct 2012 05:23:50 AM UTC, comment #1: 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, and then told me to run grub-probe with some arguments and paste the output here, so I am.
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John Ericson <ericson2314> |
Thu 25 Oct 2012 04:36:07 AM UTC, original submission:
I want to make my USB external hard drive bootable (so I can use loopback.cfg with a bunch of ISOs and not have to burn boot disks anymore). For this to work I want to store the configuration files for grub on the external hardisk, and of course install grub2 itself on the hard disk.
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John Ericson <ericson2314> |
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Date | Changed by | Updated Field | Previous Value | => | Replaced by |
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2016-03-02 | phcoder | Item Group | Software Error | ![]() |
Hardware-specific |
Planned Release | None | ![]() |
2.03+ | ||
2013-04-06 | phcoder | Priority | 5 - Normal | ![]() |
1 - Later |
Summary | I cannot grub-install my external hard drive | ![]() |
Disks with 4KiB sectors aren't BIOS-bootable (not fixable unless BIOSes supporting such disks are discovered) | ||
2013-02-28 | ericson2314 | Attached File | - | ![]() |
Added part1, #27547 |
Attached File | - | ![]() |
Added part2, #27548 | ||
2013-01-22 | ericson2314 | Attached File | - | ![]() |
Added mymbr, #27314 |
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This is drive/USB bridge characteristic. If it's changeable at all, it will probably be jumpers.