Re: Problem with Grub

2021-06-23 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2021-06-22 11:00 (UTC-0500): > On Sat 19 Jun 2021 at 14:51:53 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: >> As already mentioned, you needn't have paid. Two unrelated things were >> likely to >> have caused this to happen. Vista and or Win10 could have been installed in >> MBR >>

Re: Problem with Grub

2021-06-22 Thread David Wright
On Sat 19 Jun 2021 at 14:51:53 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > William Lee Valentine composed on 2021-06-19 10:19 (UTC-0600): > > > I had installed a back version of Debian in a partition on a > > 500-megahertz computer that was otherwise running Windows 2000 and > > MS-DOS. > > > When I had

Re: Problem with Grub

2021-06-21 Thread Joe
On Sat, 19 Jun 2021 10:19:57 -0600 William Lee Valentine wrote: > > I later installed Debian 10.2 in a partition on a 64-bit computer that > was otherwise running Windows 10. > > When I had finished installing Linux, Grub wanted to know whether I > wanted it installed on the master boot

Re: Problem with Grub

2021-06-19 Thread Felix Miata
William Lee Valentine composed on 2021-06-19 10:19 (UTC-0600): > I had installed a back version of Debian in a partition on a > 500-megahertz computer that was otherwise running Windows 2000 and > MS-DOS. > When I had finished installing Linux, on that machine, Grub wanted to > know whether I

Re: Problem with Grub

2021-06-19 Thread Douglas McGarrett
On 6/19/21 12:19 PM, William Lee Valentine wrote: I had installed a back version of Debian in a partition on a 500-megahertz computer that was otherwise running Windows 2000 and MS-DOS. When I had finished installing Linux, on that machine, Grub wanted to know whether I wanted it installed

Re: Problem with Grub

2021-06-19 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 19/06/2021 13:19, William Lee Valentine wrote: I have now another 64-bit computer, running Windows 10, whose BIOS provides the option of booting from a USB device. If I install Debian 10.2 in a partition on this computer, would I tell Grub to make the partition bootable? Would Grub instead

Re: Problem with Grub

2021-06-19 Thread IL Ka
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Problem with Grub

2021-06-19 Thread William Lee Valentine
I had installed a back version of Debian in a partition on a 500-megahertz computer that was otherwise running Windows 2000 and MS-DOS. When I had finished installing Linux, on that machine, Grub wanted to know whether I wanted it installed in the master boot record. It reported seeing Windows

Solved: Problem with grub-install (d-i, soft RAID6, Jessie)

2016-01-09 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Many thanks to Christian, David, and Pascal! With your hints I was able to solve the problems. Lessons learned: 1. d-i needs to be in "low" questions mode (expert) to allow manual selection of partition type (e.g. DOS/MBR or GPT). 2. d-i seems to call grub-install on /dev/md0, even if

Re: Problem with grub-install (d-i, soft RAID6, Jessie)

2016-01-08 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Christian Seiler a écrit : > On 01/08/2016 02:51 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> Current tools won't align for compatibility purpose any more. The >> default 1-MiB alignment is only for performance purpose, not compatibility. > > This is new to me - I always thought that this was entirely for >

Re: Problem with grub-install (d-i, soft RAID6, Jessie)

2016-01-07 Thread Pascal Hambourg
W. Martin Borgert a écrit : > > I try to install Jessie with a soft RAID6 of four disks, 1 TB each. > The idea is to use the complete disk for RAID and then only on top > separate swap and root. > > The installation worked fine on one machine, but for some reason, > grub does not install on the

Re: Problem with grub-install (d-i, soft RAID6, Jessie)

2016-01-07 Thread Christian Seiler
On 01/08/2016 02:03 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Christian Seiler a écrit : >> Problem is that GPT doesn't have such a gap. > > GPT usually also has such a gap for partition alignment purpose. Well sure, but MBR also has all the CHS baggage - and while it isn't used anymore on modern systems,

Problem with grub-install (d-i, soft RAID6, Jessie)

2016-01-07 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Hi, I try to install Jessie with a soft RAID6 of four disks, 1 TB each. The idea is to use the complete disk for RAID and then only on top separate swap and root. The installation worked fine on one machine, but for some reason, grub does not install on the fourth disk. It turns out, that the

Re: Problem with grub-install (d-i, soft RAID6, Jessie)

2016-01-07 Thread Christian Seiler
On 01/08/2016 01:22 AM, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > I try to install Jessie with a soft RAID6 of four disks, 1 TB each. > The idea is to use the complete disk for RAID and then only on top > separate swap and root. > > The installation worked fine on one machine, but for some reason, > grub does

Re: Problem with grub-install (d-i, soft RAID6, Jessie)

2016-01-07 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Christian Seiler a écrit : > > Ok, if you use MBR, only the first 512 bytes are used for the MBR > partition table, so that the gap between those bytes and the first > partition (and there is *always* a gap, the size depends on the > details of the logical geometry of the disk) has traditionally

Re: Problem with grub-install (d-i, soft RAID6, Jessie)

2016-01-07 Thread Christian Seiler
On 01/08/2016 02:51 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Christian Seiler a écrit : >> for compatibility reasons every tool that manipulates MBR >> partitions will therefore want to leave a gap after the MBR. > > Current tools won't align for compatibility purpose any more. The > default 1-MiB alignment

Re: Problem with grub-install (d-i, soft RAID6, Jessie)

2016-01-07 Thread David Christensen
On 01/07/2016 04:22 PM, W. Martin Borgert wrote: I try to install Jessie with a soft RAID6 of four disks, 1 TB each. The idea is to use the complete disk for RAID and then only on top separate swap and root. ... grub does not install on the fourth disk. It turns out, that the fourth disk is

Re: Problem with grub-install (d-i, soft RAID6, Jessie)

2016-01-07 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Christian Seiler a écrit : > > Well sure, but MBR also has all the CHS baggage - and while it isn't > used anymore on modern systems, there still is the de-factor standard > of aligning the first partition with the first CHS-sector that is so > ingrained historically that the gap between MBR and

Re: problem installing grub-legacy

2010-03-29 Thread Freeman
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 05:25:34AM +, T o n g wrote: hi, Long story, I don't want Grub2/Grub-PC, etc, but get upgraded to it. Now I can't go back, because grub-common is listed as a dependency of grub- legacy. But the grub-common package has been upgraded for use with version 2 only.

Conclusion: problem installing grub-legacy

2010-03-29 Thread T o n g
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:57:04 -0700, Freeman wrote: I don't want Grub2/Grub-PC, etc, but get upgraded to it. Now I can't go back, because grub-common is listed as a dependency of grub- legacy. But the grub-common package has been upgraded for use with version 2 only. I posted this past week

Re: Conclusion: problem installing grub-legacy

2010-03-29 Thread Freeman
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 04:12:58PM +, T o n g wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:57:04 -0700, Freeman wrote: I don't want Grub2/Grub-PC, etc, but get upgraded to it. Now I can't go back, because grub-common is listed as a dependency of grub- legacy. But the grub-common package has been

Re: problem installing grub-legacy

2010-03-29 Thread Joey Hess
Stephen Powell wrote: Aren't you glad you use Dial? Don't you wish everybody did? s/Dial/lilo/ Given that I have in the past spent up to 2 days remotely walking family members through fixing machines that booted to LI or LIL .. no. I only wish lilo on enemies -- but still prefer enemies

Re: problem installing grub-legacy

2010-03-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:46:28 -0400 (EDT), Joey Hess wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: Aren't you glad you use Dial? Don't you wish everybody did? s/Dial/lilo/ Given that I have in the past spent up to 2 days remotely walking family members through fixing machines that booted to LI or LIL

Re: problem installing grub-legacy

2010-03-28 Thread James Brown
T o n g wrote: hi, Long story, I don't want Grub2/Grub-PC, etc, but get upgraded to it. Now I can't go back, because grub-common is listed as a dependency of grub- legacy. But the grub-common package has been upgraded for use with version 2 only. Comment? Thanks I have such

Re: problem installing grub-legacy

2010-03-28 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:25:34 -0400 (EDT), Tong wrote: Long story, I don't want Grub2/Grub-PC, etc, but get upgraded to it. Now I can't go back, because grub-common is listed as a dependency of grub- legacy. But the grub-common package has been upgraded for use with version 2 only. I don't

problem installing grub-legacy

2010-03-27 Thread T o n g
hi, Long story, I don't want Grub2/Grub-PC, etc, but get upgraded to it. Now I can't go back, because grub-common is listed as a dependency of grub- legacy. But the grub-common package has been upgraded for use with version 2 only. Comment? Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply)

Problem about grub automatically changes my root device

2009-10-02 Thread Niu Kun
Dear all, I've just upgrade my sarge system to lenny. We now encountered a problem. Our original kernel is 2.4.27 and our present kernel is 2.6.26. Our main SATA disk is recognized as hdd at the time of installation. But in lenny, it is recoginzed as sda. I find that each time I install a kernel

Re: Problem about grub automatically changes my root device

2009-10-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 02 October 2009 15:41:11 Niu Kun wrote: I've just upgrade my sarge system to lenny. We now encountered a problem. Our original kernel is 2.4.27 and our present kernel is 2.6.26. Our main SATA disk is recognized as hdd at the time of installation. But in lenny, it is recoginzed as

Re: Problem about grub automatically changes my root device

2009-10-02 Thread Niu Kun
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. 写道: On Friday 02 October 2009 15:41:11 Niu Kun wrote: I've just upgrade my sarge system to lenny. We now encountered a problem. Our original kernel is 2.4.27 and our present kernel is 2.6.26. Our main SATA disk is recognized as hdd at the time of installation. But in

problem with grub loader and screen resolution in gnome

2008-12-04 Thread raman narasimhan
during debian installation from a new r4 cd that i downloaded from debian.org, i got the following error grub fatal error during installation and then i installed the lilo loader instead of debian. now i can access debian though i still dont know how to configure lilo to access windows. this

Re: problem with grub loader and screen resolution in gnome

2008-12-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 04 December 2008, raman narasimhan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'problem with grub loader and screen resolution in gnome': A. How do i revert back to grub loader?? From within the running system install grub to the mbr. For more information, see the grub documentation. B. Or how

problem with grub

2008-05-15 Thread Gilles Guiot
Hello all, I'm a newbie to Linux. I have a Dell server with two raid arrays (sda and sdb), both raid 1. I created and LVM on sdb. After having copied the filesystem from sda onto sdb, I want to configure grub so that it boots on sdb. when i type grub root (sdb,0) , i get the message :

Re: problem with grub

2008-05-15 Thread hh . eu
Am 2008-05-15 um 11:14 schrieb Gilles Guiot: Hello all, I'm a newbie to Linux. I have a Dell server with two raid arrays (sda and sdb), both raid 1. I created and LVM on sdb. After having copied the filesystem from sda onto sdb, I want to configure grub so that it boots on sdb. Could

Re: problem with grub

2008-05-15 Thread Gilles Guiot
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Am 2008-05-15 um 11:14 schrieb Gilles Guiot: Hello all, I'm a newbie to Linux. I have a Dell server with two raid arrays (sda and sdb), both raid 1. I created and LVM on sdb. After having copied the filesystem from sda onto sdb, I want to configure grub so that

Re: problem with grub

2008-05-15 Thread hh . eu
2008-05-15 17:02+0200 Gilles Guiot: my server has two raid1 arrays, each with two disks, for a total of four hd. sda1 relates to the biggest partion on the first array (sda) and sdb1 relates to the only partition on the second raid array. point is this sdb1 is in lvm so to speak, ie there

Re: problem with grub

2008-05-15 Thread Wackojacko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008-05-15 17:02+0200 Gilles Guiot: my server has two raid1 arrays, each with two disks, for a total of four hd. sda1 relates to the biggest partion on the first array (sda) and sdb1 relates to the only partition on the second raid array. point is this sdb1 is in

Re: chroot problem with grub

2006-04-14 Thread Philippe De Ryck
On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 12:13 -0600, Justin Guerin wrote: Hi, I've had to move my install to a new physical disk. I made an image of my two partitions (/boot and /), and they restored properly. Now, I only need to run grub-install to install the boot loader. When I boot from Knoppix,

Re: chroot problem with grub

2006-04-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 21:21:44 +0200 Philippe De Ryck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 12:13 -0600, Justin Guerin wrote: Hi, I've had to move my install to a new physical disk. I made an image of my two partitions (/boot and /), and they restored properly. Now, I only

chroot problem with grub

2006-04-13 Thread Justin Guerin
Hi, I've had to move my install to a new physical disk. I made an image of my two partitions (/boot and /), and they restored properly. Now, I only need to run grub-install to install the boot loader. When I boot from Knoppix, I can mount the / to /mnt/target, then mount /boot to

Re: chroot problem with grub

2006-04-13 Thread Justin Guerin
On Thursday 13 April 2006 13:21, Philippe De Ryck wrote: On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 12:13 -0600, Justin Guerin wrote: Hi, [snip problem] Justin, I don't think it is necessary to chroot at all. The knoppix disk has grub on board, so you can use that command. The command also has a command

Re: Problem mit Grub

2006-02-04 Thread Matthias Houdek
Hallo Andreas Krummrich, hallo auch an alle anderen Am Freitag, 3. Februar 2006 22:43 schrieb Andreas Krummrich: [...] Hat aber auch nicht geklappt. Ein update-grup mach die Änderung wieder rückgängig?!? Was mache ich hier falsch? Schreib deine Zeilen außerhalb des automatisch generierten

Problem mit Grub

2006-02-03 Thread Andreas Krummrich
Hallo zusammen, ich habe ein Problem mit Grub. Ich habe das OpenBSD auf meiner Soekris NET4801 in Rente geschickt und Debian Sarge installiert. Nun habe ich ein Problem beim booten bzw. mit den Ausgaben über die serielle Konsole. Also der Grub und später das login prompt werden auf der Konsole