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I came to this late and missed most of the thread so apologies if this |
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has been covered. |
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Did you mount /proc into /mnt/gentoo before chroot'ing? (see install |
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docs) This allows grub to correctly "sense" the drive map for writing |
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the boot sectors. |
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Some early MB's changed the drive map depending on what disk/media |
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(i.e., cdrom) you booted from so grub wrote a correct map at the time, |
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then the MB changed the mapping on the HD boot. Fix was to |
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intelligently guess the correct drive and write it manually using grub. |
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A later bios update allowed some control at the bios level which made it |
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easier. |
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Billk |
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On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 18:36 -0800, maxim wexler wrote: |
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> > Grub can perfectly from a floppy disk. See "info |
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> > grub" (the full grub |
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> > documentation, the man page is crap) in order to |
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> > learn how to create a |
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> > grub floppy disk (or CD/R(W)). You will then be able |
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> > to set the BIOS |
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> > boot order to default and see what a freshly booted |
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> Arrgh! Now I learn this box won't boot from a floppy! |
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> It bipasses the floppy completely unless I disable ALL |
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> the drives except the floppy and then I get: |
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> |
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> Invalid boot diskette: insert BOOT disk in A:\ |
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> Huh? Maybe it's because this is a Dell PIII and |
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> requires a proprietary DOS boot disk. |
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> There seems to be two methods from what I can find on |
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> the Web: copying menu.lst to /mnt/floppy/boot/grub and |
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> copying /boot/grub/stage1 and /boot/grub/stage2 to a |
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> floppy I tried them both without success. |
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> Of course I can still boot the gentoo-install CD but |
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> then I have to chroot to run grub which puts me back |
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> in the hole. |
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> |
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> Now, I don't have a burner on the PIII, but I have one |
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> on another box. Can someone suggest a method to burn a |
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> grub-boot CD that won't leave me with a coaster -- got |
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> plenty of those :( |
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> -mw |
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