Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can't install Grub 0.97-r5

["Drake Donahue" <donahue95@comcast.net>]

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From: "Volker Armin Hemmann" <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>
To: <gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 7:05 AM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can't install Grub 0.97-r5


> On Mittwoch, 7. Mai 2008, alain.didierjean@free.fr wrote:
>> I emerged grub's last version. So stage 1, 1.5 & 2 are in /boot/grub
>> allright. But trying to install the new mbr gives:
>> grub> root (hd0,0)
>>  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
>>
>> grub> setup (hd0)
>>  Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
>>  Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... no
>>
>> Error 15: File not found
>>
>> Of course, /boot/grub/stage1 is there.
>>
>> So I'm stuck with a half installed grub and dare not reboot. I re-emerged
>> the last version to no avail.
>> Any practical advice before I re-emerge previous grub version?
>
> emmm... I did nothing when I updated grub - and it just worked fine....

same here on two systems. Did a reboot to test before reinstalling grub.

I think the situation being warned about is one in which:
 a)  /boot filesystem is added or is remade as ext2/ext3 with inode_size=256
and
b)  the failure to reinstall grub has left the old stages 1, (1.5), and 2 in 
place in the MBR which will fail to handle the inode_size=256 file system.

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