Re: [gentoo-dev] GRUB stage1 file not found

[<drobbins@gentoo.org>]

On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 01:12:17AM +0100, Knut Feiert wrote:
> I have changed the partition allocations with PartionMagic
> and have now hda8 as boot and hda 9 as root.
> GRUB could find the files but after:
> Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 d (hd0,7)
> /boot/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5 p
> /boot/grub/stage2" .... failed
> Error 31: File is not sector aligned
> 
> What todo about this????

Here's what the GRUB documentation says:

31 : File is not sector aligned
	This error may occur only when you access a ReiserFS partition by
	block-lists (e.g. the command `install'). In this case, you should
	mount the partition with the `-o notail' option.  

Now that's strange.  It appears that if you use the hosted version of
GRUB, it doesn't access the filesystem directly but uses blocklists
instead.  If you repeat the exact same grub commands from your boot
floppy (hit "c" to get to the command line), it will work.  I may need
to switch the docs back to the old method of installing GRUB, i.e.
rebooting with the CD, hitting "c" and typing the commands in.

Let me know if my suggestion works.

> Fortunately due to your tutorial on IBM developerworks
> I could make a GRUB boot floppy which works and 
> gets Gentoo Linux up and running.

:) Glad I could help :)

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