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On Thursday 24 December 2009 10:52:08 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Thursday 24 December 2009 15:52:37 Daniel D Jones wrote: |
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> > Just did a stage 3 install following a HD crash on a new HD. The initial |
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> > install went without issue and I booted from the HD normally. I then |
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> > went through and installed a bunch of packages - xorg, kde, etc. I |
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> > installed genkernel, compiled a custom kernel, and updated |
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> > /boot/grub/menu.lst. |
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> > |
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> > Upon rebooting, I ended up at a grub command line. I can setup the hard |
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> > drive without errors: |
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> > |
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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... yes |
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> > Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes |
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> > Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes |
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> > Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 17 sectors are |
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> > embedded. succeeded |
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> > Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+17 p |
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> > (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded |
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> > Done. |
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> > |
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> > No errors, says everything's good. Reboot and I'm right back at the |
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> > command line. |
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> > |
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> > I can do |
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> > |
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> > root (hd0,0) |
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> > kernel = /vmlinuz-blah |
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> > boot |
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> > |
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> > and boot into the system, so I know the system and hd0,0 is bootable. |
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> > (I'm writing this message on it after doing the above.) |
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> > |
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> > There are three hard drives in the system. I've verified that the BIOS |
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> > is set to boot from the first hard drive, which grub sees as hd0. I've |
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> > also, just to test it out, setup grub on hd1 and hd2, with hd0,0 set as |
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> > root. I |
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> |
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> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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> |
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> > still get the same thing. |
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> |
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> Your next paragraph indicates that (hd0,0) is not in fact root, but (what |
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> will eventually be) /boot. |
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> |
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> Your root is likely to be (hd0,2) |
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Eh? Your grub root should be where grub is installed, shouldn't it? That's |
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/dev/sda1 on my system, which grub sees as hd (0,0). When the file system is |
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mounted, that partition mounted under /boot but grub still needs to know where |
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to find the menu.lst and various stage files on initial boot, and that's hd |
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(0,0). |
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-- |
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"Believe nothing, O monks, merely because you have been told it ... or because |
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it is traditional, or because you yourselves have imagined it. Do not believe |
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what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But |
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whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conducive to the |
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good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings-that doctrine believe and cling |
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to, and take it as your guide." - Gautama Buddha, Indian philosopher |
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(536?-483? B.C.) |
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