On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> So you need to retrieve GRUB 0.92, apply the patches to be found here :
> http://alpha.polynum.com/misc/
> to have the job done in conjunction with mkbimage.
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Robert Millan wrote:
> Are you using the most recent version of mkbimage? It can be found
> in GRUB CVS directory util/mkbimage
I grabbed the patch at alpha.polynum.ORG and complied up a new
grub 0.92. When I tried my previous version of mkbimage, everything
appeared to work okay, but when I tried booting the cd, I got a mesage
like...
Boot from CD:B
1: HD System Type - (0F)
... which I assume is from the bios telling me that it found a HD image.
But unfortunately it then hangs without starting grub. So then I
downloaded the latest mkbimage from cvs and fixed line 348 (the -o switch
gets added twice, once on line 348 and again in the case statement of
mkbimage_mkfs()). The new mkbimage then barfs with error 22 when it tries
to install grub on the image...
######
GRUB version 0.92 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB
lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the
possible
completions of a device/filename. ]
grub> geometry (hd0) 278 16 63
drive 0x80: C/H/S = 278/16/63, The number of sectors = 280224, /big/tmp/hd.imag
e
Partition num: 0, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
grub> root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
grub> setup (hd0)
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 18 sectors are
embedded.
succeeded
Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+18 p (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2
/boot/grub/menu.lst"... failed
Error 22: No such partition
grub> geometry -w (hd0) 278 16 63
drive 0x80: C/H/S = 278/16/63, The number of sectors = 280224, /big/tmp/hd.imag
e
Partition num: 0, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
######
Any clues to why it would complain about "No such partition"? I've
included the output from sfdisk below.
Thanks,
Greg Buchholz
#####
Disk /big/tmp/hd.image: cannot get size
Disk /big/tmp/hd.image: cannot get geometry
Disk /big/tmp/hd.image: 278 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track
/big/tmp/hd.image: unrecognized partition
Old situation:
No partitions found
New situation:
Units = cylinders of 516096 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/big/tmp/hd.image1 * 0+ 277 278- 140080+ 83 Linux native
/big/tmp/hd.image2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/big/tmp/hd.image3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/big/tmp/hd.image4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
Successfully wrote the new partition table
Re-reading the partition table ...
BLKRRPART: Inappropriate ioctl for device
If you created or changed a DOS partition, /dev/foo7, say, then use dd(1)
to zero the first 512 bytes: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/foo7 bs=512 count=1
(See fdisk(8).)
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