2016-06-30 3:27 GMT+02:00 Ken Moffat <zarniwh...@ntlworld.com>: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 01:31:37AM +0200, thibaut noah wrote: > > 2016-06-29 13:54 GMT+02:00 Ken Moffat <zarniwh...@ntlworld.com>: > > > (I'll fix up the quoting, snce your mailer seems to be crap) > >> I have no idea what that does, but it is clearly NOT a replacement > >> for actually running grub-install to /dev/sdb [ NOT sdb3 ] from within > >> chroot. Did you run grub-install ? > > > > Yes i did, but if i don't use the parted command i cannot run > grub-install, > > the command will fail. > > How does it fail ? Again you are saying things like "it fails" > without providing the exact error message, so for the moment we are > guessing. > > I cannot give you a proper message if i am not on a machine but i wanted to answer anyway. The message is "FATAL: Could not read from the boot medium! System halted.
> > > >> For qemu, I have to tell it on the command-line which image(s) [ > >> i.e. disk(s) ] tp use - I assume that qemu is similar and therefore > >> when you try to boot LFS qemu only sees one virtual disk ? > > > > you mean virtualbox right? i don't use qemu for this, virtualbox only see > > the disk i give to it so yes one disk. > > Yes, I did mean virtualbox. > > > >> And, nost importantly - what happens ? "Does not boot" tells us > >> nothing. Does grub report any error ? > > > > What i mean is virtualbox doesn't find anything to boot on, so no grub no > > anything, i don't have the exact message because i'm home > > but it's something like "no boot device detected" > > > > That sounds as if grub is not installed. > > Looking on google for virtualbox and grub, I noticed that the parted > command you mentioned sets the boot flag on the partition you > specify - that is irrelevant to grub, which has never needed the > boot flag. > > >> If I am right, your partitioning is wrong - you will need to backup > >> the new system, then partition with: > > > > Why would i do that? grub needs to have /boot in first position on the > > disk? > > If you are using GPT partitions, the BIOS boot partition is a guard > for the real GPT partitions. It is not the same as a partition > where you put /boot. See my follow-up post from earlier about > adding extra things to grub.cfg. The /boot partition can be any of > the partitions, but it is conventional on a GPT disk to protect it > with a BIOS boot partition. > > Actually, thinking about that, I suspect that grub *might* have > written to the BIOS boot partition. I don't know, and partitioning > a new image, then copying everything to it, is probably the easiest > fix. Arch is usually good for giving the details, try > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GUID_Partition_Table > > And please read the next part, which is the only piece I have > retained from what you included below your reply - > > > > > > > > Do not top post on this list. > > > > > > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > > > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > > > A: Top-posting. > > > Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? > > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style > > > > > Otherwise, people here will ignore you. > How did i top post? > ĸen > -- > Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, > and deserve to get it good and hard -- H.L. Mencken > -- > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > > Do not top post on this list. > > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style >
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