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2013/8/27 Francisco Ares <frares@×××××.com> |
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> 2013/8/27 Francisco Ares <frares@×××××.com> |
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>> 2013/8/27 Francisco Ares <frares@×××××.com> |
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>>> 2013/8/27 Francisco Ares <frares@×××××.com> |
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>>>> 2013/8/27 Michael Hampicke <mh@××××.biz> |
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>>>>> Am 26.08.2013 20:11, schrieb Francisco Ares: |
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>>>>> > Hi, Michael, thanks for you reply. |
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>>>>> > Please forgive me for not having mentioned grub2-mkconfig and |
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>>>>> > grub2-install. The mentioned grub.cfg was a sample from a working |
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>>>>> system, |
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>>>>> > with legacy grub:0, from which I have recovered parts of the kernel |
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>>>>> command |
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>>>>> > line parameters. |
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>>>>> > After "genkernel" finished to build the kernel, I've issued: |
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>>>>> > grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg |
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>>>>> > grub2-install /dev/sda |
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>>>>> > Sorry for this. |
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>>>>> > Francisco |
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>>>>> On a failed boot, can you reach the rescue system from the initramfs? |
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>>>>> (The message is something like "enter password for rescue or ctrl+d) If |
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>>>>> so, are you able mount your actual root partiton (sda5) manually? |
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>>>> No, unfortunately. But I am able to use the grub console prior to boot. |
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>>>> By doing so, I have listed the command about to be used to boot the |
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>>>> first entry in the grub menu, it installs some modules. In regard of file |
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>>>> systems, it only loads a ext2 module, and the root partition is ext4 |
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>>>> formated. |
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>>>> Although this kernel has ext2, ext3 and ext4 built in (not modules), |
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>>>> can this be a cue? Right now I am preparing to format the root partition |
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>>>> as ext2, just to check this out. |
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>>>> Thanks again |
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>>>> Francisco |
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>>> It didn't work, so I suppose the embedded ext2, ext3 and ext4 in the |
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>>> kernel is not the issue, and might be working. Going to explore the grub |
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>>> console now. |
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>>> Thanks |
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>>> Francisco |
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>> In the grub console, prior to boot, I was able to mount any partition |
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>> using commands like: |
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>> root=(hd0,msdos5) |
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>> and then listing the directory tree structure with " ls / " gave the |
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>> expected results. |
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>> Francisco |
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> I think I might have found it. Although I have selected in the kernel |
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> "menuconfig" to compress the initramfs using gzip and deselected all other |
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> decompression forms. a simple "file initramfs-xxx" told me that it was "XZ |
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> compressed data", so now I am rebuilding the kernel with all decompression |
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> algorithms built in. |
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> I will (hope) soon post the results. |
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> Thanks, |
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> Francisco |
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It did not work :-( |
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Francisco |
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