On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:46:26 +0200 "Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers" <[email protected]> wrote:
I would like to make a little report in between. At first, I realized, that the kernel of my host system was supporting ext4 file systems but not ext2 and ext3. As grub.cfg asks for ext2, I thought, this could be the reason for my problems. So I decided to build linux-2.6.34 again with support for this file systems, and after that, to build grub2. OK. I did "grub-config". But as I am always a little afraid of touching MBR, I did not make "grub-install". This tourned to be a catastrophe. I got a grub pront and nothing more. Well, with the help of my rescue disk, I tried to repair my error. No way. Rescue disks works with grub1, not grub2. chroot does also not help, as needed libraries are not accessible. I then decided to install Fedora 13, in order to have a new basis. Now, I went into a new problem. I had an IDE disk and an SATA one. To my surprise, the denominations of the devices change as they like: sometimes thy are /dev/sdbx, but on the next reboot they may turn to be /dev/sdax and so on. Like trying to fix a piece of soap. I could not install Fedora. The problem seems to be well known, as I now know, after googling a little. It seems, that mixing two kinds of disks in one box, is problematic. I took the IDE disk out of the PC, and installed Fedora 13. then I added my BLFS system to menu.lst, and now, everything is working. "menu.lst", yes. Fedora 13 still works with grub1 , and it boots ext4 systems. As I wrote, I do not know, if it is worth to continue experimenting with grub2 at this moment. I appreciate comments. I wrote this in some extension, as I think that my experiences could be a help to others, working on the same field. Regards and many thanks for all the comments and help, Edgar -- Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers <[email protected]> -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
