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