RE: [gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary inst all - GRUB

["Greer, Darren (MED)" <Darren.Greer@med.ge.com>]

k...I will give that a shot.  As an aside, can someone verify that
cvs.gentoo.org is indeed:
	216.223.235.2

Also, Since I have been unable to get the package information
downloaded, I am using the burned CD to install apps.  However, whenever
I emerge them, it automatically assumes that the individual packages are
located in their specific directories (say I try to install gnome-1.4 it
will error because it cannot find: gnome-base/gnome-applets.

All the packages on the CD are in one dir "All".  Is that error refering
that it cannot find the package, or that it cannot find the app?

Thanks,

Darren

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Robbins [mailto:drobbins@gentoo.org]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 12:56 PM
To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary
inst all - GRUB


On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:38:12PM -0500, Greer, Darren (MED) wrote:
> The symlink was something I tried "once".  I installed twice, and I
> /did/ have a /mnt/gentoo/boot/boot/grub directory, and both times grub
> would not install.  With the same error each time.  
> 
> The fact that the error was trying /boot/grub/stage1 and not
> /boot/boot/grub/stage1 was the only reason I tried the symlink.  
> 
> Everything you state, is what I did, with /mnt/gentoo/boot being the
> mount, etc.  So,  am not sure why grub did not like it.

OK, gotcha.

The next thing to verify is that you use the "-o notail" option to mount
your ReiserFS boot partition.  If you didn't, then GRUB won't be able to
read those files and will produce the errors you described.

Quick fix: mount your boot partition with notail, copy the files to
another
partition, zap the original files, and then copy them back.  When they
are
recreated, their tails won't be packed.  Tail packing is a Reiserfs
thing
that messes up most boot loaders.

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

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