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----- Original Message ----- |
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From: "Raffaele BELARDI" <raffaele.belardi@××.com> |
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To: <gentoo-amd64@l.g.o> |
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Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 6:22 AM |
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can't install Grub 0.97-r5 |
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> On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 10:34 +0200, alain.didierjean@××××.fr wrote: |
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>> I emerged grub's last version. So stage 1, 1.5 & 2 are in /boot/grub |
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>> allright. |
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>> But trying to install the new mbr gives: |
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>> grub> root (hd0,0) |
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>> Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 |
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>> |
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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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>> |
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>> Error 15: File not found |
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>> Of course, /boot/grub/stage1 is there. |
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>> So I'm stuck with a half installed grub and dare not reboot. I re-emerged |
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>> the |
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>> last version to no avail. |
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>> Any practical advice before I re-emerge previous grub version? |
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> |
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> There was a related issue discussed on this list recently, search the |
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> archives for email from Duncan with subject "boot Gentoo from USB key" |
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> dated May, 2. |
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> I don't know if this really applies to you, in my case I had that |
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> problem on a newly formatted (USB) drive. Newer mkfs.ext2 by default |
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> build 256 bytes I-nodes, and these are not recognized by grub. I |
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> re-formatted the drive using 128 bytes I-nodes (option -I to mkfs.ext2), |
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> and it ran smoothly. The symptoms were exactly as you describe, I could |
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> see the stage* files on the disk with ls, but grub told me Error 15. |
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> Did you re-create the filesystem on (hd0,0) recently? If so, you'll |
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> probably have the 256 byte I-Nodes that grub doesn't like. You can check |
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> I-node size with dumpe2fs. |
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Grub 0.97.5 handles 256 inodes. |
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Handling 256 inodes was a major reason that 0.97.5 was written. |
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> raf |
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