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John P. Burkett wrote: |
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> On a x86 machine I did "emerge -D -uav world" and got a response that |
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> read in part as follows: |
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> * Messages for package sys-boot/grub-0.97-r9: |
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> * |
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> * To avoid automounting and autoinstalling with /boot, |
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> * just export the DONT_MOUNT_BOOT variable. |
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> * |
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> * *** IMPORTANT NOTE: you must run grub and install |
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> * the new version's stage1 to your MBR. Until you do, |
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> * stage1 and stage2 will still be the old version, but |
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> * later stages will be the new version, which could |
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> * cause problems such as an unbootable system. |
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> * This means you must use either grub-install or perform |
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> * root/setup manually! For more help, see the handbook: |
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> * |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=10#grub-install-auto |
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> * To interactively install grub files to another device such as a USB |
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> * stick, just run the following and specify the directory as prompted: |
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> * emerge --config =grub-0.97-r9 |
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> * Alternately, you can export GRUB_ALT_INSTALLDIR=/path/to/use to tell |
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> * grub where to install in a non-interactive way. |
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> |
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> After reading |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=10#grub-install-auto |
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> I did "grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab". That seems to have |
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> produced the needed /etc/mtab file. Now I'm confused by the part of the |
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> manual with code listings 2.6 and |
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> 2.7 and the associated commentary. |
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> The manual suggests doing "grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sda" |
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> but later says "If your system does not have any floppy drives, add the |
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> --no-floppy option to the above command to prevent grub from probing the |
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> (non-existing) floppy drives." My machine has a floppy drive. Should I |
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> omit the --no-floppy option and just do "grub-install /dev/sda" ? |
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> -John |
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I got something similar once before. All I did was run grub, then while |
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inside grub, run root and setup. Basically like I did when i first |
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installed Linux. It has worked so far so I guess that was all that it |
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needed was to update the files in /boot for when it first loads after |
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the BIOS. |
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Hope that helps. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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