From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jtgem-0001y6-Lv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 May 2008 10:13:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 35E05E051D; Wed, 7 May 2008 10:13:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from s200aog11.obsmtp.com (s200aog11.obsmtp.com [207.126.144.125]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF689E051D for ; Wed, 7 May 2008 10:13:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from source ([164.129.1.35]) (using TLSv1) by eu1sys200aob011.postini.com ([207.126.147.11]) with SMTP; Wed, 07 May 2008 10:13:49 UTC Received: from zeta.dmz-eu.st.com (ns2.st.com [164.129.230.9]) by beta.dmz-eu.st.com (STMicroelectronics) with ESMTP id 5C5B1DA50 for ; Wed, 7 May 2008 10:13:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail1.agr.st.com (mail1.agr.st.com [164.130.4.71]) by zeta.dmz-eu.st.com (STMicroelectronics) with ESMTP id B61CE4BF9B for ; Wed, 7 May 2008 10:13:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [164.130.17.81] (ws2912.agr.st.com [164.130.17.81]) by mail1.agr.st.com (MOS 3.7.5a-GA) with ESMTP id CRA59377 (AUTH "raffaele belardi"); Wed, 7 May 2008 12:13:39 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can't install Grub 0.97-r5 From: Raffaele BELARDI To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1210149268.482169948ca44@imp.free.fr> References: <1210149268.482169948ca44@imp.free.fr> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 12:22:24 +0200 Message-Id: <1210155744.6166.29.camel@ws2912.agr.st.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a48ec786-2c81-4aa3-9bda-519432afa0f7 X-Archives-Hash: 64004c39d8361b5e664d6df04502fc32 On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 10:34 +0200, 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? There was a related issue discussed on this list recently, search the archives for email from Duncan with subject "boot Gentoo from USB key" dated May, 2. I don't know if this really applies to you, in my case I had that problem on a newly formatted (USB) drive. Newer mkfs.ext2 by default build 256 bytes I-nodes, and these are not recognized by grub. I re-formatted the drive using 128 bytes I-nodes (option -I to mkfs.ext2), and it ran smoothly. The symptoms were exactly as you describe, I could see the stage* files on the disk with ls, but grub told me Error 15. Did you re-create the filesystem on (hd0,0) recently? If so, you'll probably have the 256 byte I-Nodes that grub doesn't like. You can check I-node size with dumpe2fs. raf -- gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org mailing list