Re: [gentoo-dev] GRUB stage1 file not found

On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 07:13:06AM +0100, Knut Feiert wrote:

> Doing this after the command env-update in step 4
> gives me back my keyboard.

OK, great, I'll add this to the install guide soon.

> >Try this in grub:
> >
> >grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
> >
> >GRUB should then tell you what partitions it found stage1 on.  This should
> >be the partition you specify in the grub "root" command.  I hope that helps.
> >
>
> GRUB tells me (hd0,11) and after reading the install guide more
> carefully I only can agree!
>
> But after the command root (hd0,11) neither "find" nor "setup" can
> find stage1 any more.
>
> Could it be a problem that fdisk does not write the partition records
> in disk order?

find should still be able to find stage1, even if your partitions are 
weird.  If you don't have LBA mode enabled in your BIOS, then you may
be running into 1024 cylinder-related problems.  But first, make sure
that the stage1 file exists:

1. boot the Gentoo CD
2. mount your root at /mnt/gentoo
3. mount your boot at /mnt/gentoo/boot
look inside /mnt/gentoo/boot/boot/grub and make sure all the files are
there.
If the files are there, then for some reason GRUB can't get to them.
If you have a FAT, FFS, ext2 or reiserfs partition located closer to
the beginning of the drive, then mount this partition, and create the
/mountpoint/boot directory.  Then, cp -ax /mnt/gentoo/boot/* /mountpoint/boot,
4. unmount /mountpoint
5. chroot /mnt/gentoo
6. grub
7. grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
8. if found, then use this partition as your GRUB "root"

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