Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 grub ext4
On Monday 11 April 2011 19:12:36 James wrote: > Hello, > > Following the guides (previous post) I'm not able to set > up grub: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/RAID > > grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 > > does not work, even though the stage one file is there > grub.conf look like the example in these files. > > grub> root (hd0,0) > Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xfd > > > I used ext4 for / and /boot partitions. > (is this a problem? (sys-boot/grub-0.97-r10} > > ideas? lots of old posts about not being > able to boot grub-0.97 off of ext4, unless > patched? James, if I'm not wrong (legacy) sys-boot/grub-0.97-r10 does not have drivers for ext4. Not sure if there's a patch for it, or if grub2 can boot from ext4. Either way, why is it that /boot needs to be on ext4? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 grub ext4
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:12:36 + (UTC), James wrote: > grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 > > does not work, even though the stage one file is there > > I used ext4 for / and /boot partitions. If /boot is on a separate partition, you should be using find /grub/stage1 -- Neil Bothwick Religious error: (A)tone, (R)epent, (I)mmolate? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 grub ext4
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:12:36 + (UTC), James wrote: > > > grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 > > > > does not work, even though the stage one file is there > > > > I used ext4 for / and /boot partitions. > > If /boot is on a separate partition, you should be using > > find /grub/stage1 > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > Religious error: (A)tone, (R)epent, (I)mmolate? > If the symlink is there for boot -> /boot -- and it is by default -- both work.
Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 grub ext4
On 11/4/2011, at 9:18pm, Mick wrote: >> ... >> I used ext4 for / and /boot partitions. >> (is this a problem? (sys-boot/grub-0.97-r10} > > James, if I'm not wrong (legacy) sys-boot/grub-0.97-r10 does not have drivers > for ext4. Not sure if there's a patch for it, or if grub2 can boot from ext4. Use ext2 for /boot, James. There's no need for extents on such a small partition, nor journalling (because you write to /boot so rarely, the likelihood of a power failure when you're doing so is minuscule). Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 grub ext4
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 21:09:17 -0500, Mark Shields wrote: > > If /boot is on a separate partition, you should be using > > > > find /grub/stage1 > If the symlink is there for boot -> /boot -- and it is by default -- > both work. I've found GRUB's handling of symlinks to be variable at best. Try searching for the real file. -- Neil Bothwick A chicken is an egg's way of producing more eggs. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
