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From: Michel Catudal <mcatudal@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 23:18:13
Message-Id: 55DF9A9A.904@comcast.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1 by Fernando Rodriguez
1 Le 2015-08-27 14:23, Fernando Rodriguez a écrit :
2 >
3 > I just got it to work with these steps:
4 >
5 > 1. Mount the partition to /mnt/usb
6 > 2. Run:
7 >
8 > #grub2-install --directory /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc --boot-
9 > directory=/mnt/usb/boot --force /dev/sdb2
10 > Installing for i386-pc platform.
11 > grub2-install: warning: File system `ext2' doesn't support embedding.
12 > grub2-install: warning: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installed
13 > in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and
14 > their use is discouraged..
15 > Installation finished. No error reported.
16 >
17 > 3. Set the partition as active with fdisk.
18 >
19 > And it booted. To verify that it didn't overwrite the mbr I overwrote it with
20 > syslinux's mbr as follows:
21 >
22 > sudo dd conv=notrunc bs=440 count=1 if=/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sdb
23 >
24 > Still boots!
25 >
26 >
27 >
28 Thanks for the info. I will use this next time. How do you tell it to use some other display beside display for the blind?
29
30 I don't care for the automatic ways of grub2, I prefer to edit the boot file by hand and have a nice command line screen.
31 With grub1 you just tell it what type of display you want.
32
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Re: [gentoo-user] Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1 Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>