Bug#553415: Halts after printing "GRUB" on MacBook Pro

tag 553415 pending
thanks
Am Freitag, den 06.11.2009, 18:38 -0800 schrieb Matt Kraai:
> grub-setup: warn: This GPT partition label has no BIOS Boot Partition;
> embedding won't be possible!
> grub-setup: warn: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be
> installed in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are
> UNRELIABLE and its use is discouraged.
> grub-setup: error: If you really want blocklists, use --force.

This is the problem:
grub-setup: warn: This GPT partition label has no BIOS Boot Partition;
embedding won't be possible!
grub-setup: warn: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be
installed in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are
UNRELIABLE and its use is discouraged.
grub-setup: error: If you really want blocklists, use --force.

core.img gets written to /boot/grub but then grub-setup fails to update
the MBR with the new sectors.
If you can still boot without running grub-install/grub-setup --force
yourself you can only boot as long as the old core.img doestn't get
overwritten on the disk or the new one has exactly the same startsector.

Anyway I added now --force to the postinst, so with the next upload you
won't have that problem again.

--
Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer




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On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 11:50:47AM +0100, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> Anyway I added now --force to the postinst, so with the next upload you
> won't have that problem again.

Thanks!

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Matt http://ftbfs.org/kraai



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