Bug#667510: grub2-common: grub-install fail on gpt disk with error: will not proceed with blocklists

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 04:28:03PM +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> With update to grub 1.99-20 (and 21), grub install fails with the following message:
> 
> domi at frodo:~$ LANG=C sudo grub-install /dev/sda
> /usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: This GPT partition label has no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be possible!.
> /usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: 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/grub-setup: error: will not proceed with blocklists.

You must use --force if you are using blocklists.

Perhaps you were confused by the bug in -20, which is fixed in -21; that
might have meant that the automatic run of grub-install in the postinst
failed.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]