Bug 25710

Summary: draklive-install crashed
Product: Mageia Reporter: Alejandro Vargas <alejandro.anv>
Component: InstallerAssignee: Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: lewyssmith, ouaurelien
Version: 7   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Source RPM: draklive-install-2.23-1.mga7 CVE:
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Description Alejandro Vargas 2019-11-19 11:26:13 CET 
The "draklive-install" program crashed. Drakbug-18.21 caught it.

I've created a partition type "bios boot" but it was created as code 0x0 (not sure if it is correct). But when installing grub it was the error.

grub2-install failed: Instalando para plataforma i386-pc.
grub2-install: aviso: esta etiqueta de partición GPT no contiene ninguna Partición de Arranque BIOS; el embebido no será posible.
grub2-install: aviso: El embebido no es posible.  GRUB podrá ser instalado con esta configuración únicamente usando listas de bloques.  No obstante, las listas de bloques son INSEGURAS y su uso está desaconsejado..
grub2-install: error: no se procederá con las listas de bloques.
	...propagated at /usr/lib/libDrakX/any.pm line 269.
Perl's trace:
drakbug::bug_handler() called from /usr/lib/libDrakX/any.pm:269
any::installBootloader() called from /usr/sbin/draklive-install:368
main::setup_bootloader() called from /usr/sbin/draklive-install:77
main::install_live() called from /usr/sbin/draklive-install:47

Theme name: Adwaita
Kernel version = 5.1.14-desktop-1.mga7
Distribution=Mageia release 7 (Official) for x86_64
CPU=Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-6100 CPU @ 3.70GHz
Alejandro Vargas 2019-11-19 11:26:34 CET

Component: RPM Packages => Installer

Comment 1 Lewis Smith 2019-11-19 21:33:48 CET 
(In reply to Alejandro Vargas from comment #0)
> I've created a partition type "bios boot" but it was created as code 0x0
> (not sure if it is correct). But when installing grub it was the error.
Please say what sort of machine you have: BIOS/MBR, or EFI/GPT.
Are you using an EFI system in so-called 'compatability mode'? This is never a good idea.
What was your intention in creating this 'bios boot' partition? Please post the output from:
 # fdisk -l /dev/sda         [or the ID of the disc in question]

Also say what you were doing: installing Mageia (from the Classic installer)?
Or updating Grub2 on an installed system?
 
> grub2-install failed: Instalando para plataforma i386-pc.
> grub2-install: aviso: esta etiqueta de partición GPT no contiene ninguna
> Partición de Arranque BIOS; el embebido no será posible.

> Kernel version = 5.1.14-desktop-1.mga7
> Distribution=Mageia release 7 (Official) for x86_64
> CPU=Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-6100 CPU @ 3.70GHz
You appear to have a 64-bit system, yet the error messages are for 32-bit. You might be mixing MBR and GPT.

CC: (none) => lewyssmith

Comment 2 Aurelien Oudelet 2020-08-19 23:02:32 CEST 
Does this bug still valid?
Making GPT for bios boot is not recommended way.

For bios boot on old systems, you should use dos type partition table, with a 1 MB BIOS_BOOT type partition at the very beginning of disk, also a /boot partition his recommended.

For UEFI boot on 64 bits systems (not in compatibility mode), you should use GPT type partition table, with a /boot/EFI FAT32 partition.

Since there is no further info,

Closing it,

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => ouaurelien
Resolution: (none) => INVALID