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On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:38:12PM -0500, Greer, Darren (MED) wrote: |
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> The symlink was something I tried "once". I installed twice, and I |
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> /did/ have a /mnt/gentoo/boot/boot/grub directory, and both times grub |
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> would not install. With the same error each time. |
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> The fact that the error was trying /boot/grub/stage1 and not |
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> /boot/boot/grub/stage1 was the only reason I tried the symlink. |
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> Everything you state, is what I did, with /mnt/gentoo/boot being the |
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> mount, etc. So, am not sure why grub did not like it. |
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OK, gotcha. |
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The next thing to verify is that you use the "-o notail" option to mount |
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your ReiserFS boot partition. If you didn't, then GRUB won't be able to |
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read those files and will produce the errors you described. |
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Quick fix: mount your boot partition with notail, copy the files to another |
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partition, zap the original files, and then copy them back. When they are |
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recreated, their tails won't be packed. Tail packing is a Reiserfs thing |
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that messes up most boot loaders. |
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Best Regards, |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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