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 1RXjXE-0002xR-Iq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:09:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BEA3921C165; Tue, 6 Dec 2011 01:09:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svr-us4.tirtonadi.com (svr-us4.tirtonadi.com [69.65.43.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40AB721C143 for ; Tue, 6 Dec 2011 01:06:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f53.google.com ([209.85.161.53]) by svr-us4.tirtonadi.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RXjTx-000gHE-NQ for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2011 08:06:05 +0700 Received: by faai28 with SMTP id i28so3747267faa.40 for ; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:05:51 -0800 (PST) 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 Received: by 10.216.24.21 with SMTP id w21mr2460859wew.57.1323133551769; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:05:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.103.70 with HTTP; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 17:05:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.103.70 with HTTP; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 17:05:51 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87wraa8qru.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87vcpwxau3.fsf@newsguy.com> <20111205000820.7b829d64@rohan.example.com> <87r50jykcx.fsf@newsguy.com> <87mxb7yiwk.fsf@newsguy.com> <20111205030758.33e7a4e2@rohan.example.com> <20111205094215.44c9a3cd@rohan.example.com> <87pqg3gkn4.fsf@newsguy.com> <87wraa8qru.fsf@newsguy.com> Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 08:05:51 +0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vbox vm no boot From: Pandu Poluan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016364d1dc357f91e04b362092d X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - svr-us4.tirtonadi.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.gentoo.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - poluan.info X-Archives-Salt: 46d87cb1-7a41-4c59-896e-3d9ac6f0493d X-Archives-Hash: ab82ec505995dac221c2027abfbf2e53 --0016364d1dc357f91e04b362092d Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Dec 6, 2011 8:00 AM, "Harry Putnam" wrote: > > Claudio Roberto Fran=C3=A7a Pereira 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=3D/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, --0016364d1dc357f91e04b362092d Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable


On Dec 6, 2011 8:00 AM, "Harry Putnam" <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
>
> Claudio Roberto Fran=C3=A7a Pereira <spideybr@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > From the first post, you've ran, under grub, setup (hd0,0). T= his
> > installs grub on the first partition boot loader, you want to ins= tall
> > 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. =C2=A0Relying on memory let me do setup (hd0,0) which like you sa= y is
> really wrong. =C2=A0And 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 you= r sata
> > controller, the partitions are all there. It seems that you misse= d to
> > append the root=3D/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 ke= rnel 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 optim= ize ext4 to hell and back.

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

Rgds,

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