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Re: Bug with separate boot partition and non-MBR install
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Thomas Lyon Gideon |
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Re: Bug with separate boot partition and non-MBR install |
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Mon, 02 Apr 2001 11:24:09 -0400 |
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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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