From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MArh6-0005Br-BA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 31 May 2009 20:31:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 78C26E03C5; Sun, 31 May 2009 20:31:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f213.google.com (mail-ew0-f213.google.com [209.85.219.213]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E7BEE03C5 for ; Sun, 31 May 2009 20:31:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so6729011ewy.34 for ; Sun, 31 May 2009 13:31:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=qjlaReYrRMR4ycG73js5UZybkQKoCvHeGFlnZGb0CfY=; b=KmLYwX3RIE95jduM1mcUFtvk3m1d/NyQjrFASJXBK1iYAPYPkFGkrxoyB2Fq+uGCFD oitkN+wQKHsFaof7t427br+s2gdQkEpVi9+Gt/R+4IqI21ueiD/GJ2FUs43lrDQ9ZILB I62G3XOKKSwLu0kPBNLwvce3VGFqGagbSprI8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=toP8SboXai2aYvXNGsOu1kOyUKnW8vWySK5gRjqzlH0zMVIwMKVLbDaNql2CEpSM8+ 3Tyr+d9dhihEW8zTdUOXFi7ByhBcCH3pUKSH7AQTDzaZ/FED64Pm5KjaxpAlxzsTsC+o E5XWP5ky/eiTD4AuTH6Ux139lF+1vxDqPnpaE= Received: by 10.210.79.9 with SMTP id c9mr1110532ebb.75.1243801906681; Sun, 31 May 2009 13:31:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-123-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.123]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm192742eyf.18.2009.05.31.13.31.45 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 31 May 2009 13:31:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub: how to install new version of stage 1 Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 22:30:19 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.3 (Linux/2.6.29-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.2.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <4A2181F4.2040407@uri.edu> <200905311920.40452.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4A22E355.90306@uri.edu> In-Reply-To: <4A22E355.90306@uri.edu> 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: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200905312230.19736.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 370ca2d7-7b83-4ce5-a784-c8f49d6246b7 X-Archives-Hash: 338b2be98a10a6fc01ad07cf142483a7 On Sunday 31 May 2009 22:06:45 John P. Burkett wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Sunday 31 May 2009 18:12:34 John P. Burkett wrote: > >> In my /dev directory, I see a sda and a md1 file. > >> > >> Suggestions for diagnosing or resolving the problem would be much > >> appreciated. > >> > >> John > > > > md1 is a software raid drive. grub may or may not be able to read it > > depending on what kind of raid it is. > > > > But I doubt you are booting from that if you have an sda, so even though > > grub finds it, just don't use it and ignore the message. You told grub > > where to install the boot loader, and it will have done that. > > Thanks, Alan. I'll trust that grub works now. Keep a bootable media handy For just in case it doesn't work -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com