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On Tuesday 17 February 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> One thing that could be at fault is that I had grub installed into hd0,2 |
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> (sda3) which is an ext4 partition. |
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I think that this is probably the cause. GRUB has these stage 1.5 fs related |
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files: |
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`e2fs_stage1_5' |
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`fat_stage1_5' |
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`ffs_stage1_5' |
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`jfs_stage1_5' |
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`minix_stage1_5' |
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`reiserfs_stage1_5' |
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`vstafs_stage1_5' |
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`xfs_stage1_5' |
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> /boot is sda4 and is ext3. But I'm |
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> sure grub should work no matter where you install it. I can even |
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> install it on sda1 which is NTFS and it works. Hell, I can even install |
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> it on the swap partition. |
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I think you are mixing stage 1 and stage 2 GRUB images? Stage 1 is installed |
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in MBR or any partition's boot sector. No knowledge of fs is required for |
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that to be accessed (by BIOS or a chainloader) and JUMPTO deals with that. |
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The 1.5 images on the other hand are used to read the fs in which GRUB's |
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stage 2 is installed. That's far too large to fit into a boot sector. I |
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doubt that GRUB's e2fs_stage1_5 can read ext4, but I don't know really - a |
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question for GRUB's mailing list? |
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> I guess the reason it broke will remain a mystery :P |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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