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 1MAVs8-0000iG-5Y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 30 May 2009 21:13:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2AD0EE03B0; Sat, 30 May 2009 21:13:43 +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 DFA9EE03B0 for ; Sat, 30 May 2009 21:13:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 13so2432450fge.14 for ; Sat, 30 May 2009 14:13:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=qWsH2eOx3vJ96pm0i2qcNLzU35xqXAu3fmXMFxwjuA4=; b=pYk/LIoRVxdwjd5BE+34kn4hXIdMyDL33/VXih3nGicVBmNqdBnfqwqNeMUK1hlaK/ RfpOFpwUZdmZIioyuycvWDLMlwYDI51UDP2mo+7mqpHTj3M7Y93iEQgoXCSknGHZfxYm c6TLnOjnuWD+opDLJ7yPP7PeptIg3saF+WQME= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=uZSqDTnqh8+Cu5ulJ7sKwmTvP5eBWp6d4ma9wBObv9iCr8eTzcGPQ5padxJKPMkR+D 3Ll1HS7z5gLRW1UR16iCV8vPKmOealF7qIi/lq94JfEDjnO8qA6JC0hghTErfI0JTEtQ b+HZDp2Lr5wucgZHmkc2vHQevPqqY4iRkbFm4= Received: by 10.86.79.5 with SMTP id c5mr4534643fgb.20.1243718022135; Sat, 30 May 2009 14:13:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?64.89.169.43? (r169h43.dixie-net.com [64.89.169.43]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e11sm4230336fga.6.2009.05.30.14.13.37 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 30 May 2009 14:13:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A21A17D.9070708@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 16:13:33 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090529 SeaMonkey/1.1.16 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub: how to install new version of stage 1 References: <4A2181F4.2040407@uri.edu> In-Reply-To: <4A2181F4.2040407@uri.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 02c2f029-9304-4efc-9c75-71ac4e393d64 X-Archives-Hash: 2f957acab258cfaa9f6b5cf3a5247a93 John P. Burkett wrote: > On a x86 machine I did "emerge -D -uav world" and got a response that > read in part as follows: > * Messages for package sys-boot/grub-0.97-r9: > * > * To avoid automounting and autoinstalling with /boot, > * just export the DONT_MOUNT_BOOT variable. > * > * *** IMPORTANT NOTE: you must run grub and install > * the new version's stage1 to your MBR. Until you do, > * stage1 and stage2 will still be the old version, but > * later stages will be the new version, which could > * cause problems such as an unbootable system. > * This means you must use either grub-install or perform > * root/setup manually! For more help, see the handbook: > * > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=10#grub-install-auto > * To interactively install grub files to another device such as a USB > * stick, just run the following and specify the directory as prompted: > * emerge --config =grub-0.97-r9 > * Alternately, you can export GRUB_ALT_INSTALLDIR=/path/to/use to tell > * grub where to install in a non-interactive way. > > After reading > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=10#grub-install-auto > I did "grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab". That seems to have > produced the needed /etc/mtab file. Now I'm confused by the part of the > manual with code listings 2.6 and > 2.7 and the associated commentary. > The manual suggests doing "grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sda" > but later says "If your system does not have any floppy drives, add the > --no-floppy option to the above command to prevent grub from probing the > (non-existing) floppy drives." My machine has a floppy drive. Should I > omit the --no-floppy option and just do "grub-install /dev/sda" ? > > -John > > > I got something similar once before. All I did was run grub, then while inside grub, run root and setup. Basically like I did when i first installed Linux. It has worked so far so I guess that was all that it needed was to update the files in /boot for when it first loads after the BIOS. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-)