I recently bought a shiny new Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro and I want to dual boot it with Ubuntu for studying purposes. Its built-in OS is Windows 8.1 and it has a 256GB SSD.
I’ve made a separate 90GB partition just for Ubuntu and a live USB to install it.
The first time everything seemed to work great, I solved the wifi issued by blacklisting ideapad_laptop, the installation went flawlessly and Ubuntu worked fine.
When I got up the next morning and turned on my laptop it booted into Windows right away without ever showing the GRUB menu. So I tried to reset, and checked my partitions with the Disk Manager and everything looked fine. Since I couldn’t find a solution online I went ahead and formatted the partition to try and install again. This time and every time since, the installation was aborted and I got a fatal error saying:
Unable to install GRUB in /dev/sda
Executing `grub-install /dev/sda` failed.
This is a fatal error.
Can anyone please suggest a solution to this problem?
If any further information is needed I would be happy to provide it.
Thanks.
When installing I get the following in details:
ubuntu kernel: [ 1946.372741] FAT-fs (sda2): error, fat_get_cluster: invalid cluster chain (i_pos 0).
ubuntu grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install --force failed.
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I just had this problem installing Ubuntu 14.04 from a USB stick to a hard drive.
The problem was the USB stick was /dev/sda, installing to the hard drive /dev/sdb
Even though the installer knew to install to /dev/sdb, it then tried to install grub to the MBR on /dev/sda, and failed. The workaround was to go back to the menu, try again, say NO to automatically install to MBR of first hard drive and manually tell it /dev/sdb.
Then everything worked.
Zanna♦
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answered Jan 9, 2015 at 5:16
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I finally got it working, not sure which of the following did the trick but I:
- Disabled Lenovo Fast Boot in BIOS.
- Disabled Secure Boot in BIOS.
- Booted from Live USB.
- In boot menu Added
backlight=vendorin Try Ubuntu configuration text just beforequiet splash. - Chose Try Ubuntu.
- In terminal ran
sudo rmmod ideapad_laptopto enable wifi. - Ran installation and chose to install updates during installation.
- EFI partition was selected automatically so I assigned 9700MB for swap space and 80GB for Ubuntu.
- After installation completed added
backlight=vendorto/etc/default/grubbeforequiet splashand then ransudo update-grub. - Blacklisted
ideapad_laptopto enable wifi. - Works fine so far. Thanks to everyone for the help!
Zanna♦
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answered May 10, 2014 at 7:55
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I got the same error while installing Ubuntu 20.04. Turned out that I had created «logical» instead of «primary» partitions during the installation process for both my EFI and root partition. I ran the installation again, this time configuring both partitions as a «primary» partition, and the error was gone this time.
answered Apr 27, 2020 at 16:33
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I had a similar problem. What I did was to leave the installation as it was, then I made sure my drive was in UEFI mode and booted from a live CD and installed boot-repair.
To do this I had to add the yannubuntu repository and then download it with apt-get. This was done the following way:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install boot-repair
boot-repair
Then, when the program was launched, I checked all the options in Advanced Options > Main Options and clicked Apply.
Zanna♦
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answered Feb 4, 2016 at 20:55
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I had this issue when installing Ubuntu (not dual-boot) in my new build. None of the boot options described above would work for me.
I had to disconnect my SSD and all USB devices so that Ubuntu would only recognize the 1T HDD for installation.
Zanna♦
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answered Dec 13, 2015 at 13:46
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I don’t have a Lenovo Yoga but I had the same issue on my desktop.
It has SSD and HDD drivers, it was listed like this:
SATA#1 HDD /dev/sda
SATA#2 SSD /dev/sdb
As always I’m trying to install the OS on my SSD. The installer is installing Ubuntu (or Linux Mint) on /dev/sdb but then is trying to install GRUB on /dev/sda. That is a problem.
The solution was to swap the SATA connections, like this:
SATA#1 SSD /dev/sda
SATA#2 HDD /dev/sdb
answered Jun 24, 2018 at 16:49
megasmegas
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- Check installation media for corruption
- Check BIOS and disable Secure boot
- Disable Lenovo fast boot
I assume you are installing in UEFI mode, so it might be nescessary to unlock System lock in BIOS. If neither works, I would assume that problem lies in dual boot. I myself am running Ubuntu on Y2P as I type without any problems.
As for blacklisting ideapad_laptop module, you may want to check github.com/pfps/yoga-laptop, as there are some Y2P specific drivers. Still work in progres tho.
answered May 2, 2014 at 17:32
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Ran into this very issue while installing on a Poweredge with scsi raid. I found that pulling out the USB drive prior to installing GRUB did the trick.
answered Aug 21, 2015 at 16:04
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I have the same laptop and for me everything works fine — but I installed the grub loader into the already existing EFI partition, which had the index 2 at the end of its name — it certainly wasn’t the sda partition though, which was chosen by default. (So I chose my partition for installation above and below, there was the possibility to change the partition for grub installation.)
I used an SD card for installation and started it in UEFI mode, because Windows 8.1 was pre-installed that way, too. (I’m sorry if I’m expressing this in a wrong way, but I only know about all this from reading in different forums before installing Ubuntu 14.04 about three days ago.)
Anyway, everything works fine if you do it this way. Start installation medium in UEFI mode, choose the partition freed for the installation, install grub into the existing EFI partition.
Oh, and also, I didn’t really have to change anything in the BIOS, I had disabled fast boot before and left it that way. It automatically changed something else, I can look that up again, if you want to know.
answered May 10, 2014 at 7:26
menowmenow
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I had a plethora of devices on a bare install and got this on 12.04 (last alternate manual install). Rather than track down where you specify to GRUB, I just acquiesced and moved the boot SSD to the sata-0 port so it would show up as sda.
answered Nov 30, 2015 at 15:14
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This problem occured when i tried to give new life to my VERY old hp pavilion dm4. It said it couldn’t install grub and none of the buttons to do anything worked. I freaked out, and force shutdown my computer in the MIDDLE of installation. Luckily, I was able to boot on to the pen drive again. I later figured out that the pen drive had been pulled out a little bit, causing the installer to go nuts. It turned out for me it was a really simple little solution.
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answered Aug 9, 2016 at 4:37
I had the same problem when installing Ubuntu 15.10 desktop (dual boot on separate partition in Lenovo G40-45 laptop where Windows 10 is already installed and activated).
I had already disabled secure boot (as per my earlier experiences with dual boot — Linux and Windows).
Finally I decided that I would try with secure boot enabled (as I expected things to have improved since 14.xx). AND IT WORKED!!! — without any other adjustments (and without internet connection).
(I installed Windows 10 while secure boot was disabled and then installed Ubuntu with secure boot enabled).
Zanna♦
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answered Nov 11, 2015 at 16:43
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It can’t be /dev/sda itself, it have to be some partiton of it. As usual windows make one NTFS, one recovery and one UEFI for boot parition. We have to first identify this UEFI boot partition as to get dual boot working.
My bios is of ASRock. This is how I was able to make it grub install for dual booting.
I think issue was I was trying to use just usb as bootable in the bootable drive options.
Once I chose usb uefi as bootable, I saw immediate change in partitions seen on parition layout GUI.
I was able to see uefi windows boot manager partition at /dev/sda2, (which I identified from windows disk partitons as the one with EFI layout), this was not shown when I was choosing usb without uefi option as bootable drive. I chose this uefi partition as boot partition for my install.
After that grub installed on windows boot manager partition and it and dual boot started working.
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I recently bought a shiny new Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro and I want to dual boot it with Ubuntu for studying purposes. Its built-in OS is Windows 8.1 and it has a 256GB SSD.
I’ve made a separate 90GB partition just for Ubuntu and a live USB to install it.
The first time everything seemed to work great, I solved the wifi issued by blacklisting ideapad_laptop, the installation went flawlessly and Ubuntu worked fine.
When I got up the next morning and turned on my laptop it booted into Windows right away without ever showing the GRUB menu. So I tried to reset, and checked my partitions with the Disk Manager and everything looked fine. Since I couldn’t find a solution online I went ahead and formatted the partition to try and install again. This time and every time since, the installation was aborted and I got a fatal error saying:
Unable to install GRUB in /dev/sda
Executing `grub-install /dev/sda` failed.
This is a fatal error.
Can anyone please suggest a solution to this problem?
If any further information is needed I would be happy to provide it.
Thanks.
When installing I get the following in details:
ubuntu kernel: [ 1946.372741] FAT-fs (sda2): error, fat_get_cluster: invalid cluster chain (i_pos 0).
ubuntu grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install --force failed.
Braiam
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asked May 2, 2014 at 16:56
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I just had this problem installing Ubuntu 14.04 from a USB stick to a hard drive.
The problem was the USB stick was /dev/sda, installing to the hard drive /dev/sdb
Even though the installer knew to install to /dev/sdb, it then tried to install grub to the MBR on /dev/sda, and failed. The workaround was to go back to the menu, try again, say NO to automatically install to MBR of first hard drive and manually tell it /dev/sdb.
Then everything worked.
Zanna♦
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answered Jan 9, 2015 at 5:16
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I finally got it working, not sure which of the following did the trick but I:
- Disabled Lenovo Fast Boot in BIOS.
- Disabled Secure Boot in BIOS.
- Booted from Live USB.
- In boot menu Added
backlight=vendorin Try Ubuntu configuration text just beforequiet splash. - Chose Try Ubuntu.
- In terminal ran
sudo rmmod ideapad_laptopto enable wifi. - Ran installation and chose to install updates during installation.
- EFI partition was selected automatically so I assigned 9700MB for swap space and 80GB for Ubuntu.
- After installation completed added
backlight=vendorto/etc/default/grubbeforequiet splashand then ransudo update-grub. - Blacklisted
ideapad_laptopto enable wifi. - Works fine so far. Thanks to everyone for the help!
Zanna♦
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answered May 10, 2014 at 7:55
vicban3dvicban3d
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I got the same error while installing Ubuntu 20.04. Turned out that I had created «logical» instead of «primary» partitions during the installation process for both my EFI and root partition. I ran the installation again, this time configuring both partitions as a «primary» partition, and the error was gone this time.
answered Apr 27, 2020 at 16:33
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I had a similar problem. What I did was to leave the installation as it was, then I made sure my drive was in UEFI mode and booted from a live CD and installed boot-repair.
To do this I had to add the yannubuntu repository and then download it with apt-get. This was done the following way:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install boot-repair
boot-repair
Then, when the program was launched, I checked all the options in Advanced Options > Main Options and clicked Apply.
Zanna♦
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answered Feb 4, 2016 at 20:55
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I had this issue when installing Ubuntu (not dual-boot) in my new build. None of the boot options described above would work for me.
I had to disconnect my SSD and all USB devices so that Ubuntu would only recognize the 1T HDD for installation.
Zanna♦
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answered Dec 13, 2015 at 13:46
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I don’t have a Lenovo Yoga but I had the same issue on my desktop.
It has SSD and HDD drivers, it was listed like this:
SATA#1 HDD /dev/sda
SATA#2 SSD /dev/sdb
As always I’m trying to install the OS on my SSD. The installer is installing Ubuntu (or Linux Mint) on /dev/sdb but then is trying to install GRUB on /dev/sda. That is a problem.
The solution was to swap the SATA connections, like this:
SATA#1 SSD /dev/sda
SATA#2 HDD /dev/sdb
answered Jun 24, 2018 at 16:49
megasmegas
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- Check installation media for corruption
- Check BIOS and disable Secure boot
- Disable Lenovo fast boot
I assume you are installing in UEFI mode, so it might be nescessary to unlock System lock in BIOS. If neither works, I would assume that problem lies in dual boot. I myself am running Ubuntu on Y2P as I type without any problems.
As for blacklisting ideapad_laptop module, you may want to check github.com/pfps/yoga-laptop, as there are some Y2P specific drivers. Still work in progres tho.
answered May 2, 2014 at 17:32
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Ran into this very issue while installing on a Poweredge with scsi raid. I found that pulling out the USB drive prior to installing GRUB did the trick.
answered Aug 21, 2015 at 16:04
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I have the same laptop and for me everything works fine — but I installed the grub loader into the already existing EFI partition, which had the index 2 at the end of its name — it certainly wasn’t the sda partition though, which was chosen by default. (So I chose my partition for installation above and below, there was the possibility to change the partition for grub installation.)
I used an SD card for installation and started it in UEFI mode, because Windows 8.1 was pre-installed that way, too. (I’m sorry if I’m expressing this in a wrong way, but I only know about all this from reading in different forums before installing Ubuntu 14.04 about three days ago.)
Anyway, everything works fine if you do it this way. Start installation medium in UEFI mode, choose the partition freed for the installation, install grub into the existing EFI partition.
Oh, and also, I didn’t really have to change anything in the BIOS, I had disabled fast boot before and left it that way. It automatically changed something else, I can look that up again, if you want to know.
answered May 10, 2014 at 7:26
menowmenow
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I had a plethora of devices on a bare install and got this on 12.04 (last alternate manual install). Rather than track down where you specify to GRUB, I just acquiesced and moved the boot SSD to the sata-0 port so it would show up as sda.
answered Nov 30, 2015 at 15:14
1
This problem occured when i tried to give new life to my VERY old hp pavilion dm4. It said it couldn’t install grub and none of the buttons to do anything worked. I freaked out, and force shutdown my computer in the MIDDLE of installation. Luckily, I was able to boot on to the pen drive again. I later figured out that the pen drive had been pulled out a little bit, causing the installer to go nuts. It turned out for me it was a really simple little solution.
edwinksl
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answered Aug 9, 2016 at 4:37
I had the same problem when installing Ubuntu 15.10 desktop (dual boot on separate partition in Lenovo G40-45 laptop where Windows 10 is already installed and activated).
I had already disabled secure boot (as per my earlier experiences with dual boot — Linux and Windows).
Finally I decided that I would try with secure boot enabled (as I expected things to have improved since 14.xx). AND IT WORKED!!! — without any other adjustments (and without internet connection).
(I installed Windows 10 while secure boot was disabled and then installed Ubuntu with secure boot enabled).
Zanna♦
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answered Nov 11, 2015 at 16:43
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It can’t be /dev/sda itself, it have to be some partiton of it. As usual windows make one NTFS, one recovery and one UEFI for boot parition. We have to first identify this UEFI boot partition as to get dual boot working.
My bios is of ASRock. This is how I was able to make it grub install for dual booting.
I think issue was I was trying to use just usb as bootable in the bootable drive options.
Once I chose usb uefi as bootable, I saw immediate change in partitions seen on parition layout GUI.
I was able to see uefi windows boot manager partition at /dev/sda2, (which I identified from windows disk partitons as the one with EFI layout), this was not shown when I was choosing usb without uefi option as bootable drive. I chose this uefi partition as boot partition for my install.
After that grub installed on windows boot manager partition and it and dual boot started working.
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Есть цель — поставить убунту рядом с Windows 10. До этого линукс никогда не устанавливал, а опыт использования был непродолжительным и не связанным с его технической частью.
В какой-то момент установки вылетает окно со словами: «Не удалось выполнить команду ‘grub-install/dev/sda2. Это неисправимая ошибка.'»:
Потом 2 окна, что установка завершена, и что программа установки аварийно завершена. Потом ещё одно окно с заголовком: «Installation failed», и текстом: «The installer encountered an unrecoverable error. A desktop session will now be run so that you may investigate the problem or try installing again».
При повторной установке всё то же.
Если кому-то внесёт ясность какая структура дисков моего ноутбука, то вот:
- Красным выделен тот раздел, куда я намерен установить убунту;
- Если я ничего не попутал, то: sda4 — диск C, sda7 — диск D, sda8 — то место, куда я хочу поставить убунту.
Да, я искал решения. Например, есть такой ответ: https://askubuntu.com/a/571582. Возможно, это решение, но я его даже с переводчиком не понял 
.
Если нужны ещё какие-то данные, то уточняйте, я сделаю апдейт вопроса.
UPD1. Попробовал установить grub не в sda2, а в sda — всё то же, прерывается на том же месте.
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Rakkot
Добрый день! Уже не первый год пользуюсь ubuntu но как рядовой пользователь, просто замена винды.
Взял ноут Lenovo ideapad 320 celeron 4200n radeon 530 2gb 4gb RAM 500HDD и докупил SDD kingston
Ноут с UEFI. Не могу поставить линукс, ни Ubuntu ни элементраи.
Пишет Это не удалось выполнить команду grub-install/dev/sda1 неисправимая ошибка.
ПРОШУ НЕ СПЕШИТЕ КИДАТЬ КАМНЯМИ!
Я перепробовал все методы лечения ошибки. Через жипартед корректно разметил диск, все по гайду.
Однако чтобы я не делал ничего не работает.
в bios
boot mode uefi
fast boot disable
secure boot disable
Систему пытаюсь ставить на SSD уже на сам ссдшник грешу, может в нем проблема.
Пользователь добавил сообщение 03 Июля 2020, 16:00:09:
пытался восстановить через бут репэир и вот что он мне пишет
GPT обнаружена. Пожалуйста, создайте раздел BIOS-Boot (>1MB, файловая система неотформаторована, Флаг bios_grub). Выполнить это вы можете с помощью инструмента Gparted. Затем попробуйте снова.
Или вы можете повторить после задействования параметра [Отдельный раздел /boot/efi:]
Цитировать самому себя не нужно. Оверквотинг удален. Отправлено уведомление пользователю о допущенном нарушении в ЛС.
—zg_nico
ТС не появлялся на Форуме более трех месяцев по состоянию на 19/03/2021 (последняя явка: 04/07/2020). Модератором раздела принято решение закрыть тему.
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Dzhoser
Вы команду вручную вводите или как?
При разбитии автоматом тоже не ставится?
Покажите скрин gparted
Morisson
grub-install/dev/sda1
grub-install /dev/sda
Morisson
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/путь/до/EFIраздела --bootloader-id=GRUB
--efi-directory=/boot/EFIскорее всего у вас будет
efi- раздел должен быть примонтирован в /boot/EFI
Rakkot
А по верхней галке не пробовали? Или есть ценная инфа на диске?
конечно пробовал в автоматическом режиме, все тоже самое
Пользователь добавил сообщение 03 Июля 2020, 16:37:39:
Покажите скрин gparted
эмммм а как прикрепить картинку? 
))
пишет что не умеет прикреплять jpg png
Оверквотинг удален.
—zg_nico
« Последнее редактирование: 03 Июля 2020, 18:34:57 от zg_nico »
Morisson
итак, диск с разметкой gpt у Вас и в автоматическом режиме тоже не устанавливается?
Rakkot
В общем победа
что я сделал
я разметил диск следующим образом:
/dev/sda1 /dev/sda1 EFI System
/dev/sda2 Linux Swap
/dev/sda3 Linux Filesystem система с точкой монтирования /
/dev/sda4 BIOS Boot
/dev/sda5 Linux Filesystem с точкой монтирования /home
но мне опять вывело ошибку граб инсталер
я повторно через лайф сиди запустил граб репеир, прошел процедуру восстановления и все заработало.
Может кому-то мой опыт пригодится.
zg_nico
Ноут с UEFI. Не могу поставить линукс, ни Ubuntu ни элементраи.
Пишет Это не удалось выполнить команду grub-install/dev/sda1 неисправимая ошибка.
Если при обновлении ядра или еще в дальнейшем при использовании системы столкнетесь с ошибками (при обновлении ядра вызывается upgate-grub, и на проблемных машинах может быть сбой аналогичный тому, что Вы видели при установке):
1. убедиться что отключены SecureBoot, fastboot и прочая виндузятная ерунда в настройках UEFI.
2. если та же ошибка, что и ранее, то отказаться от использования grub2 (на этапе установки системы это делается через запуск установщика с ключом -b). Вместо него, ИМХО, на проблемных машинах неплохо себя зарекомендовал rEFInd (у самого сейчас он стоит и проблем не знаю от слова «совсем»). Пример установки системы в этом посте или поиском по форуму. Если система уже установлена — можно обойтись установкой пакета refind через apt. После того, как он установлен — в настройках BIOS переместить его на первое место. Загрузиться через него, удалить grub2, вычистить от конфигов систему, после чего вместо grub2 подготовить и установить пакет-заглушку, чтобы система не притащила его с очередным обновлением. Пример конфигурирования: тыц. Пример подготовки пакета-заглушки: тыц.
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vladimirzhuravlev
Может кому-то мой опыт пригодится.
Упаси Бог от такого опыта, /dev/sda4 BIOS Boot… это что, раздел под загрузчик заделал ? Работает и ладно, но советовать такой «опыт» другим ?
andytux
«Выиграл битву, но проиграл войну.»
кому-то мой опыт пригодится…
…чтобы не повторять этих ошибок.
разметил диск следующим образом
Разметка более чем бредовая, хотя видал и пострашнее.
повторно через лайф сиди запустил граб репеир
Ты редкий счастливчик, тебе повезло. Можешь играть в наперстки.
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