btrfs preventing installation of grub2
Yesterday I was installing btrfs when I gave the fatal command to format a partition but forgot the partition number! So the drive was wiped and the functioning RAID devices (a RAID1 and a RAID5) were decommissioned. I used sgdisk to duplicate the partition structure from a mated disk and got everything working again.
I went to install grub2 from a chroot into the newly formatted and set up disk and received the following unpleasant news: Quote:
So I checked for my own crumbs. A standard command yielded the following: Quote:
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Does anyone know how to zap this tragic reminder of yesterday's errant keystroke (or lack thereof)? Can I erase this UUID without having to once more reformat the drive and copy all the files? Any help is greatly appreciated. |
I'm not sure I get the issue. Before you get too much farther let me point out some of my questions.
One is this. "Attempting to install GRUB to a disk with multiple partition labels." Exactly which drive are you trying to install grub on? Also I don't think you can edit uuid on btrfs yet. |
I was installing on /dev/sde (see first line of first quote). Thanks jefro for getting back on this, but I needed to get my computer back up ASAP, and so I'm reformatting and reinstalling once more. Fortunately, everything was backed up. What I'm learning about btrfs is that it is a very sticky filesystem. Once you've made a btrfs RAID, its presence lingers, even after deletion. But btrfs and its capabilities fascinates me, and I'm determined to get this up and running. Thanks, again.
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Something learned
Zeroed out hard drive (/dev/sde) that I was unable to install grub2 on, and then did the same copying of the partition of its mated drive (/dev/sdb) to sde and this time I was able to install grub2 successfully. Not sure what "multiple blocklists" the warning referred to when I installed it yesterday, but zapping the hard drive with zeroes seems to have done the trick.
This isn't really solved as a problem, but it is resolved. |
Thanks for how you got it working.
I was assuming you wanted to install to sda. |
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