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I have reformatted /boot, mounted -notail, copied the files, |
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and it worked. |
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Shouldn't step 2 of the install guide be changed accordingly? |
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On the other hand is it worthwhile using a journaling |
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file system for a partition which is not mounted |
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most of the time and has a limited number of files? |
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Especially for those who do kernel compilation only |
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if they have to and then forgetting about the |
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-notail business? |
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Knut |
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On Thu, 1 Feb 2001 16:12:21 -0700, drobbins@g.o wrote: |
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>OK, I know the problem. You're installing GRUB to a partition rather than |
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>your MBR. Apparently, it doesn't have room in the boot record of your partition |
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>to install the Stage1.5 file for ReiserFS, so it needs to use the blocklist |
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>method for loading the kernel. However, ReiserFS is not compatible with the |
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>blocklist method unless you mount the boot partition with the notail option |
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>before copying over the GRUB files. You can fix this by: |
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>1. Boot Gentoo Linux with your boot disk |
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>2. mount /boot -o notail |
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>3. mkdir /tmp/grub |
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>4. mv /boot/boot/grub/* /tmp/grub |
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>5. mv /tmp/grub/* /boot/boot/grub |
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>6. umount /boot |
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>Now, you should be able to use the bootdisk (or the grub program under Linux) |
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>to set up your boot sector. Of course, now that everything is using ext2 |
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>(which doesn't need the notail option), you're all set. |
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>What I didn't notice immediately is that you're using GRUB as a secondary (not |
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>a primary/MBR) boot loader. |
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