Re: Bug with separate boot partition and non-MBR install

[Thomas Lyon Gideon]

Jochen Hoenicke wrote:

> grub-0.5.96.1 doesn't support EZ-BIOS but when you install grub into
> a partition and do it from Grub floppy with EZ-BIOS loaded first, as
> you do, I don't see a problem.

On a suggestion I found in the list archive for someone else with a 
similar problem, I grabbed the latest code out of CVS and compiled.  I 
was then able to install to hd0 (instead of hd0,0) without destroying 
EZ-BIOS.  Everything now works fine--I even added a listing in my 
menu.lst for a newly compiled 2.4.2 kernel and that works flawlessly, too.

> > I tried root (hd0,0) followed by setup (hd0,0), which reported success, 
> > then rebooted.  After EZ-BIOS loaded, then boot loaded GRUB, I get Error 
> > 0x01 over and over again.  
>
>
> What does "setup (hd0,0)" print?  I suspect it is specifying a wrong
> path somewhere.  And what is exactly printed on boot?

No, the paths it outputted appeared correct.  /boot/grub/stage1, 
/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5, and /boot/grub/stage2.  That was what was so 
perplexing.  Before I added the symlink to boot, I got a failed to find 
stage1 in /boot/grub, then it would report that if found the files in 
/grub, and output an install command using /grub instead of /boot/grub.  
I just don't know if it was the combination of both EZ-BIOS and a 
separate boot partition that was too much for the setup command.

> Yes, you still need a symlink for 0.5.96.1 and separate boot partition
> (should be fixed in next version). Does the symlink point to "." or
> "/boot"?  It must point to "." for grub.  You can check it with ls -l.

I created the symlink exactly as the documentation specified.  I left 
the symlink intact when I installed with 0.5.97--I didn't realize that 
it might be unnecessary with the new version.  At any rate, the new 
version seems to have cleared everything up.  If there is anything I can 
do (without hosing my working installation) to sort out the problem with 
0.5.96.1, let me know.

Tom

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