On Dec 6, 2011 8:00 AM, "Harry Putnam" <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
>
> Claudio Roberto França Pereira <spideybr@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > From the first post, you've ran, under grub, setup (hd0,0). This
> > installs grub on the first partition boot loader, you want to install
> > it on the DISK boot loader, on the MBR. Maybe gparted fixed that for
> > you. The correct way would be to run:
> > root (hd0,0) //indicate where grub stage 1.5 and 2 are.
> > setup (hd0) //install grub's stage 1 on the MBR.
>
> That was a nice catch ... I sure did F___ this up from beginning to
> end.  Relying on memory let me do setup (hd0,0) which like you say is
> really wrong.  And what makes it worse is that the install
> documentation tells you exactly what to run... I didn't even look,
> just thought I `remembered'
>

Age is a harsh mistress :-)

> > About the second error, the kernel is definitely detecting your sata
> > controller, the partitions are all there. It seems that you missed to
> > append the root=/dev/sda3 to the kernel parameters, under grub.conf.
>
> Another good catch, and I caught it too, at some point.
>
> > In the end, I'd recommend disabling ext2 fs support in the kernel too,
> > and use ext4 to mount ext2 and ext3 file systems.
>
> Why is that?

ext4 driver is perfectly capable of mounting ext2/3, so you'll save memory.
And before btrfs matures, you can expect the kernel people to optimize ext4
to hell and back.

I'm not (yet) aware of any additional benefits.

Rgds,