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Jason Thomas |
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Fri, 1 Aug 2003 17:08:04 +1000 |
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Is anyone else experiencing this problem.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
----- Forwarded message from Stephane Jourdois <address@hidden> -----
> Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 08:04:22 +0200
> From: Stephane Jourdois <address@hidden>
> To: Jason Thomas <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: grub
>
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 11:17:20AM +1000, Jason Thomas wrote:
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=108640
> > stephane is this still an issue for you?
>
> Yes it is :
>
> (hd0,0) is reiserfs, (hd0,1) is ext2.
> I use (hd0,1) as /boot, since it's the only way to use grub on my
> machine for the moment.
>
> Without /boot on ext2, here is what I get :
>
> root(pts/4)@emeraude:~# grub-install '(hd0)'
> The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly.
> root(pts/4)@emeraude:~# grub
> [snip]
> GNU GRUB version 0.93 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
> [snip]
> grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
> (hd0,0)
> (hd0,1)
>
> grub> cat (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage1
>
> grub> cat (hd0,1)/boot/grub/stage1
> [snip, garbage on screen :-) ]
>
> grub> dump (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage1 /tmp/foo
> dump (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage1 /tmp/foo
>
> grub> quit
> quit
> root(pts/4)@emeraude:~# ls -l /tmp/foo
> -rw------- 1 root root 0 2003-08-01 07:50 /tmp/foo
> root(pts/4)@emeraude:~# mount
> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 on / type reiserfs (rw,notail)
>
> I use reiserfs 3.6, perhaps that's an issue ?
> I can provide you debug info if necessary, but I didn't find any
> readable info inside it myself :-)
>
>
> If I use my ext2 partition as /boot, everything works :
>
> root(pts/4)@emeraude:~# mount
> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 on / type reiserfs (rw,notail)
> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
> root(pts/4)@emeraude:~# grub-install '(hd0)'
> Installation finished. No error reported.
>
> (and the machine boots correctly)
>
>
> Thanks for your attention.
>
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