Hello! Please review your steps. Part of the problem is that even though there is support within GRUB legacy for booting from a device that has been formatted using EXT3 style modes. And indeed I've seen them installed accordingly, the problem is that it won't boot without an initial root device file.
Also I see in your steps a series of glaring errors. Note the one concerning the file-system creation versus how it was mounted. A partition was created using the appropriate program. It is the very first one of four. Then you chose to create the file system within. Then you chose to mount it. It is that "grep" function that confused some of the things. And secondly every time grub gets installed to a bootable device, it goes under the boot directory. Feel free to try again, but leave that "grep" function out. Also please describe what distribution you are using and of course the target for this flash card. -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Force will be with you always." Obi-Wan Kenobi -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of tony vong Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 9:08 PM To: bug-grub@gnu.org Subject: Someone please help! Trying to make a 8M flash card bootable using grub by got this error. First, I mkfs the flashcard. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mkfs /dev/sda1 -t ext3 mke2fs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) max_blocks 8011776, rsv_groups = 978, rsv_gdb = 30 Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=1024 (log=0) Fragment size=1024 (log=0) 1960 inodes, 7824 blocks 391 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=1 Maximum filesystem blocks=8126464 1 block group 8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group 1960 inodes per group Writing inode tables: done inode.i_blocks = 62, i_size = 67383296 Creating journal (1024 blocks): done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done This filesystem will be automatically checked every 35 mounts or 180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# Second, I mounted /dev/sda1 to /mnt/flash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mount | grep sda /dev/sda1 on /mnt/flash type ext3 (rw) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# Third, I copied over the stage files [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mkdir /mnt/flash/grub [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cp /boot/grub/stage* /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 /mnt/flash/grub/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# Fourth, I install grub, but I got stuck at "root(hd0,0)". Can anyone help ? grub> device (hd0) /dev/sda grub> root (hd0,0) Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x1 grub> geometry (hd0) drive 0x80: C/H/S = 246/2/32, The number of sectors = 15744, /dev/sda Partition num: 0, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x1 grub> _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
