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On Monday 11 April 2011 19:12:36 James wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> Following the guides (previous post) I'm not able to set |
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> up grub: |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml |
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> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/RAID |
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> grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 |
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> does not work, even though the stage one file is there |
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> grub.conf look like the example in these files. |
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> grub> root (hd0,0) |
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> Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xfd |
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> I used ext4 for / and /boot partitions. |
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> (is this a problem? (sys-boot/grub-0.97-r10} |
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> ideas? lots of old posts about not being |
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> able to boot grub-0.97 off of ext4, unless |
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> patched? |
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James, if I'm not wrong (legacy) sys-boot/grub-0.97-r10 does not have drivers |
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for ext4. Not sure if there's a patch for it, or if grub2 can boot from ext4. |
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Either way, why is it that /boot needs to be on ext4? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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