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On Dec 6, 2011 8:00 AM, "Harry Putnam" <reader@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Claudio Roberto França Pereira <spideybr@×××××.com> writes: |
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> > From the first post, you've ran, under grub, setup (hd0,0). This |
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> > installs grub on the first partition boot loader, you want to install |
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> > it on the DISK boot loader, on the MBR. Maybe gparted fixed that for |
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> > you. The correct way would be to run: |
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> > root (hd0,0) //indicate where grub stage 1.5 and 2 are. |
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> > setup (hd0) //install grub's stage 1 on the MBR. |
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> That was a nice catch ... I sure did F___ this up from beginning to |
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> end. Relying on memory let me do setup (hd0,0) which like you say is |
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> really wrong. And what makes it worse is that the install |
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> documentation tells you exactly what to run... I didn't even look, |
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> just thought I `remembered' |
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Age is a harsh mistress :-) |
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> > About the second error, the kernel is definitely detecting your sata |
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> > controller, the partitions are all there. It seems that you missed to |
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> > append the root=/dev/sda3 to the kernel parameters, under grub.conf. |
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> Another good catch, and I caught it too, at some point. |
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> > In the end, I'd recommend disabling ext2 fs support in the kernel too, |
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> > and use ext4 to mount ext2 and ext3 file systems. |
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> Why is that? |
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ext4 driver is perfectly capable of mounting ext2/3, so you'll save memory. |
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And before btrfs matures, you can expect the kernel people to optimize ext4 |
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to hell and back. |
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I'm not (yet) aware of any additional benefits. |
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Rgds, |
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