[ale] HD failed- grub2-install; fails.. half-solved

Paul Cartwright pbcartwright at gmail.com
Tue Oct 28 10:14:02 EDT 2014


On 10/28/2014 05:48 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> I have a 2 disk system. The original disk has Windows 7. I partitioned
> it & added linux, then added another disk. The other day I rebooted for
> a new kernel and... black screen, no grub. tried a rescue disk
> grub2-install, nada, so I switched disks & booted from the new HD, it
> had an old grub installed on it. Now when I try to run grub2-install I get:
> grub2-install /dev/sda
> /usr/sbin/grub2-bios-setup: warning: Attempting to install GRUB to a
> disk with multiple partition labels.  This is not supported yet..
> /usr/sbin/grub2-bios-setup: warning: Embedding is not possible.  GRUB
> can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists.  However,
> blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged..
> /usr/sbin/grub2-bios-setup: error: will not proceed with blocklists.
>
>
> so, I have my newest fedora on a partition, but the grub menu doesn't
> see it, and I can't update it. How do I fix that??
>
ok, so I ran --force and it.. worked, but still didn't add my fedora 21
boot options, very weird.. it boots into fedora 21, but only with the
earliest kernel. I can do an "e" and modify it & it boots, but it still
doesn't seem to add it to grub menu.


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Paul Cartwright
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