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 1KF8Pa-0007l4-6d for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:06:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F2661E053B; Sat, 5 Jul 2008 14:06:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.189]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C893E04F8 for ; Sat, 5 Jul 2008 14:06:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c7so420360nfi.26 for ; Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:06:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=DnYO3w3Qa7Nqo7TU7vvjV6vwwC61zNK/FAcUayzqo3o=; b=NK3BaFyqbvNDQUv26R7UF4DpEQHS6tVPwYyDGn3KQBwu20DzPOcY6AG3e0AYcCbWOz y9QfQvvkW7LwqyNfy+JhNX/Q/3PtC+9fUjMh9G/9SqSnIdxvL790NyJFfW6OOvn7/xx/ lDKPoVXOS9XFyFpekRE9dOG0sMyUs+2LNGCYA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=KHDEKoGj8a2+zefRNly2jrsPBVu8Kg7p8sPbGTGX/kHiaUW/NAZJd3KgO4V8SIFQZu Zqfh+ZYoUfGjGFSLUEfeOAElx6zTrAij2spss6iYYeFpJGyAF7uxC4R90k3uARuRaZTS 2HVwZB97uveAuXUDMbKZ62T/vnC/6pxC+hisY= Received: by 10.210.19.11 with SMTP id 11mr1278049ebs.32.1215266803957; Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:06:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lappy.study ( [212.159.46.48]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f13sm2528491gvd.2.2008.07.05.07.06.42 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:06:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 15:06:31 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <20080703174838.5415a54a@NOTE_GENTOO64.PHHEIMNETZ> <200807051218.37513.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20080705153028.3f221306@NOTE_GENTOO64.PHHEIMNETZ> In-Reply-To: <20080705153028.3f221306@NOTE_GENTOO64.PHHEIMNETZ> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1472808.txlWEkpkxF"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200807051506.40344.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 38680b58-04d6-4981-b23b-9d4cbefe7cfd X-Archives-Hash: 38e1dd37e58e6b38e0886f69befbedc6 --nextPart1472808.txlWEkpkxF Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 05 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 12:18:28 +0100 > > Mick wrote: > > As far as I can understand the problem arises because you have > > installed grub everywhere. When your BIOS kicks in it goes to the > > first disk's MBR, reads the GRUB boot code, which starts probing each > > and every device where a GRUB file system exists. Perhaps it also > > checks each MBR? Eventually it arrives at /dev/hdd and GRUB loads up > > its boot menu. You can tweak the /boot/grub/device.map file to > > change the order of the devices and bring up /dev/hdd sooner. > > > > Alternatively and probably easier would be to change the boot order > > of your drives in your BIOS menu. Since you have installed GRUB in > > each drive's MBR you should be able to boot straight off your hdd > > drive. > > > > HTH. > > I think I've already written that I've installed Grub on every disk > because I didn't know whether the BIOS allows booting from secondary > slave and I didn't want to risk an unbootable system. You should be able to boot and reinstall GRUB in which ever MBR you choose= =20 with a LiveCD. > I've already changed the BIOS boot order to look at /dev/hdd's MBR > first but that didn't help. Right, have you checked your device.map to see if there's anything untoward= in=20 there? > Now the system boots correctly but it takes ages (>10sec) to come=20 > from "Grub loading Stage1.5" to "Grub loading, please wait..." Stage1.5 contains the filesystem driver which will allow GRUB to be able to= =20 read the fs of hdd on which the /boot/grub/stage2 file is stored. Since 10= =20 seconds to read a relatively small file is rather excessive, could it be a= =20 drive cable/ribbon fault? > and then another 10sec or more to open the menu. Ditto. If it were that the GRUB code in the bootloader went into a loop or= =20 something, scanning all drives, then by this step it would not need to prob= e=20 or access any other device. The fact that it takes so long points towards = a=20 hardware rather than a configuration issue. Other than that could it be a = fs=20 corruption problem? Unless better ideas are proposed you may want to remerge grub, then re-inst= all=20 it manually in the first disk MBR using a grub > prompt (as per the handboo= k)=20 and point it's root to your hdd disk. HTH. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1472808.txlWEkpkxF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkhvf/AACgkQ5Fp0QerLYPerNwCgkCAO9Z4ia9bfJ2adjMXH5cqu KhQAn0KLJ5MG1SQTh3XSUQD4M6bv+RYt =AJyC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1472808.txlWEkpkxF-- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list