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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 grub ext4
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 21:18:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201104112119.57357.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20110411T201022-160@post.gmane.org>

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On Monday 11 April 2011 19:12:36 James wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Following the guides (previous post) I'm not able to set
> up grub:
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml
> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/RAID
> 
> grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
> 
> does not work, even though the stage one file is there
> grub.conf look like the example in these files.
> 
> grub>  root (hd0,0)
>  Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xfd
> 
> 
> I used ext4 for / and /boot partitions.
> (is this a problem? (sys-boot/grub-0.97-r10}
> 
> ideas? lots of old posts about not being
> able to boot grub-0.97 off of ext4, unless
> patched?

James, if I'm not wrong (legacy) sys-boot/grub-0.97-r10 does not have drivers 
for ext4.  Not sure if there's a patch for it, or if grub2 can boot from ext4.

Either way, why is it that /boot needs to be on ext4?
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-11 20:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-11 18:12 [gentoo-user] raid1 grub ext4 James
2011-04-11 20:18 ` Mick [this message]
2011-04-12  5:57   ` Stroller
2011-04-12 14:10     ` [gentoo-user] " James
2011-04-12 14:31       ` Peter Humphrey
2011-04-12 14:57         ` Dale
2011-04-12 15:16           ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-04-12 15:44           ` Peter Humphrey
2011-04-13 10:14           ` Alex Schuster
2011-04-11 20:49 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2011-04-12  2:09   ` Mark Shields
2011-04-12  9:11     ` Neil Bothwick
2011-04-12 14:20       ` [gentoo-user] " James
2011-04-12 16:53         ` James
2011-04-13  9:46           ` Florian Philipp
2011-04-14 12:56             ` James
2011-04-14 13:14               ` Florian Philipp
2011-04-14 14:41               ` Paul Hartman
2011-04-14 13:10             ` James
2011-04-14 13:41               ` James
2011-04-14 14:11                 ` Florian Philipp
2011-04-14 15:07                   ` James
2011-04-14 15:52                     ` Florian Philipp
2011-04-14 16:29                       ` James
2011-04-14 19:49                         ` Florian Philipp
2011-04-14 20:19                           ` James
2011-04-14 21:12                             ` Florian Philipp
2011-04-14 20:24                           ` James
2011-04-14 14:13                 ` Dale
2011-04-14 14:52                   ` James
2011-04-14 16:14                     ` Dale
2011-04-14 16:34                       ` James

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