Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub: how to install new version of stage 1
Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 20:31:48
Message-Id: 200905312230.19736.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] grub: how to install new version of stage 1 by "John P. Burkett"
1 On Sunday 31 May 2009 22:06:45 John P. Burkett wrote:
2 > Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 > > On Sunday 31 May 2009 18:12:34 John P. Burkett wrote:
4
5 > >> In my /dev directory, I see a sda and a md1 file.
6 > >>
7 > >> Suggestions for diagnosing or resolving the problem would be much
8 > >> appreciated.
9 > >>
10 > >> John
11 > >
12 > > md1 is a software raid drive. grub may or may not be able to read it
13 > > depending on what kind of raid it is.
14 > >
15 > > But I doubt you are booting from that if you have an sda, so even though
16 > > grub finds it, just don't use it and ignore the message. You told grub
17 > > where to install the boot loader, and it will have done that.
18 >
19 > Thanks, Alan. I'll trust that grub works now.
20
21 Keep a bootable media handy
22
23 For just in case it doesn't work
24
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26 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com