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From: Knut Feiert <Knut.Feiert@×××××.de>
To: "gentoo-dev@g.o" <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GRUB stage1 file not found
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 15:24:57
Message-Id: <3A6FFDBB000970DB@mail.epost.de> (added by postmaster@mail.epost.de)
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GRUB stage1 file not found by drobbins@gentoo.org
1 On Thu, 1 Feb 2001 12:56:29 -0700, drobbins@g.o wrote:
2
3 >Now that's strange. It appears that if you use the hosted version of
4 >GRUB, it doesn't access the filesystem directly but uses blocklists
5 >instead. If you repeat the exact same grub commands from your boot
6 >floppy (hit "c" to get to the command line), it will work. I may need
7 >to switch the docs back to the old method of installing GRUB, i.e.
8 >rebooting with the CD, hitting "c" and typing the commands in.
9 >
10 >Let me know if my suggestion works.
11 >
12
13 I tried it but got the same result.
14 For now I have sidestepped the problem,
15 by formatting the /boot partition as ext2,
16 and it works.
17
18 If you have some other suggestions for
19 the Reiserfs I will try them.
20
21 Knut