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 1LaEnx-00071u-8b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:43:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BFE17E055E; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:43:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.155]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80DA4E055E for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:43:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e12so1162776fga.14 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:43:26 -0800 (PST) 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=f3iDjWf+xehskAbXOlHalCepIRRDtWM/h4KpjfdR74Q=; b=PLw140hzXaeMLK3CwGSI+JzPHVF3RqrckDNC+F9tAIS8j0EfKHkJjHhnp7GMKRRvf0 FSTPK/bK6m8xu33RsVRdHPXi2iIkJTsLyigkS4LbqvFSjxptchOO9bqvWb9rEpkTN+SG OxnDmcDMk4okpfVGD4lizjto/bXJHYwzKqk5I= 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=g6rJcyjvV7z9u58Slje/Ih/C9If8KS3r5My0KzyqSSZH6JBnU4pZJs36htfIyltbHx mZRh1qtaFFtT0FCEa96CLf5vfJzu/cD06RqaYwSwq0QRgfJehn8aiIywInoSVodzXN6N lnZVU4f6emAqYR1HdFksjohG43Oy9jXJ77gC4= Received: by 10.103.244.10 with SMTP id w10mr938481mur.71.1235072606756; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:43:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from lappy.study (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b23sm4629001ugd.38.2009.02.19.11.43.25 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:43:25 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub broke out of the blue Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:21:18 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <20090217080854.7fdb1f40@krikkit> In-Reply-To: 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="nextPart7774128.cRgmQPZIFg"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200902190821.29576.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 7556b382-fd4b-4c86-aef3-3dbe44d70cd2 X-Archives-Hash: 4262b4cd9de0642b2571b1cbed520e9c --nextPart7774128.cRgmQPZIFg Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 17 February 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > One thing that could be at fault is that I had grub installed into hd0,2 > (sda3) which is an ext4 partition. =20 I think that this is probably the cause. GRUB has these stage 1.5 fs relat= ed=20 files: `e2fs_stage1_5' `fat_stage1_5' `ffs_stage1_5' `jfs_stage1_5' `minix_stage1_5' `reiserfs_stage1_5' `vstafs_stage1_5' `xfs_stage1_5' > /boot is sda4 and is ext3. But I'm=20 > sure grub should work no matter where you install it. I can even > install it on sda1 which is NTFS and it works. Hell, I can even install > it on the swap partition. I think you are mixing stage 1 and stage 2 GRUB images? Stage 1 is install= ed=20 in MBR or any partition's boot sector. No knowledge of fs is required for= =20 that to be accessed (by BIOS or a chainloader) and JUMPTO deals with that.= =20 The 1.5 images on the other hand are used to read the fs in which GRUB's=20 stage 2 is installed. That's far too large to fit into a boot sector. I=20 doubt that GRUB's e2fs_stage1_5 can read ext4, but I don't know really - a= =20 question for GRUB's mailing list? > I guess the reason it broke will remain a mystery :P =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart7774128.cRgmQPZIFg 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) iEYEABECAAYFAkmdFokACgkQ5Fp0QerLYPeZxACeNEfNoQiuZwIHhEHFtkkf2W9P Gi0An0vji2DZQkJj4dkZ+XtBXiQ3xaVN =kfxk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart7774128.cRgmQPZIFg--