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>From: Beso |
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>To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o |
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>Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2008 2:04 PM |
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>Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] new clean rebuild |
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<snip><beso discussed rebuild> |
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>2008/5/17 Mark Knecht markknecht@×××××.com |
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said in part in reply: |
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>1) Mask >grub-0.97.r4 for now. |
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Recommend not doing the step above. |
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In contrast to my experience a week ago when ext2/ext3 filesystems were |
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being built with INODE_SIZE=128 (in spite of a default INODE_SIZE=256 in |
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the /etc/mke2fs.conf file}; yesterday, an up-to-date mke2fs was honoring |
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the default setting and producing ext2/ext3 filesystems with |
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INODE_SIZE=256. |
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If one runs mke2fs as suggested in the handbook to create a filesystem for |
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use as /boot the filesystem will have INODE_SIZE=256. Therefore |
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grub-0.97.r4 and older will not be able to setup a stage 1/stage1.5/stage2 |
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capable of loading /boot. At the point the handbook follower finds that grub |
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0.97.4 is reporting: |
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<quote> |
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grub> setup (hd0) |
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Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no |
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Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... no |
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Error 2: Bad file or directory type |
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<unquote> |
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The valid recovery choices then will be: |
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a) unmask grub, emerge grub (version 0.97.5 or newer), run grub and setup |
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the desired drive |
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or |
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b) move or copy /boot and subdirectories to another partition, remake the |
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filesystem specifying INODE_SIZE=128, return /boot and subdirectories to the |
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remade partition, run grub setup the desired drive. |
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<snip><Mark suggested rebuild techniques><beso further discussed/replied> |
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Beso said in part in reply: |
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>ps. i've never had any problems with grub, unless the fact that i'm not |
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>able to rebuild it with the grubfx >image (as the opensuse version). |
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I've played extensively with grub 0.97-r5 in the last 10 days and it is not |
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a problem. |
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Should also be noted that emerging/installing grub has no affect on the |
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ability to boot an existing installation. Effects are not felt until grub or |
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grub-install is run or grub.conf is edited. |
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dott. ing. beso |
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