grub2 = beta?
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Fri Dec 11 15:53:31 UTC 2009
On Friday 11 December 2009, Goh Lip wrote:
>On 12/11/2009 10:23 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> I do not have those installed for F10. I'll see if grub-pc is available.
>> No, but a grub2 is available that installs all the grub2 stuff in
>> /boot/grub2, and makes a new entry in grub/grub.conf that names it as a
>> kernel to load& run. This could be fun. It spent about 5 minutes
>> hammering on every drive in this box so I'm going to look around and see
>> what else it did before retrying a reboot.
>>
>>>> Watch out during installation when it will initially use chainload,
>>>> then further instructions will follow. Follow through to finish.
>>>>
>>>>> I just ran into grub2 again. Running F10 normally here, but just
>>>>> installed Linux Mint 8, 32 bit version on /dev/sdb, which is derived
>>>>> from Ubuntu 9.10
>>>>>
>>>>> I have this in my /dev/sda1(/boot for F10)/grub/grub.conf:
>>>>>
>>>>> title Mint Linux 8 32 bit (from /dev/sdb)
>>>>> rootnoverify (hd1,0)
>>>>> makeactive
>>>>> chainloader +1
>>>
>>> And I just found I didn't have a space between chainloader and +1.
>>
>> Ok, with the space in there, I now get an error 13, invalid format. And
>> it times out in about 5 seconds and loops back to the sstarting menu from
>> /dev/sda, and grub-0.97. I purposely made both Mint partitions /boot and
>> / ex3 filesystems so there would not be the sort of thing where F12
>> apparently can only be booted from an ext4 system thanks to fedora's
>> "forking" of grub-0.97 without even changing the version number.
>>
>> Next?
>>
>> Thanks
>
>Gene, let's clarify some assumptions before we proceed,
>
>
>o Your "grub mbr" is from F10 and this is grub-legacy, ie grub-0.97.
Correct
>o Your Linux Mint (sdb) is in ext4 format, is on 2nd sata drive, grub2.
No, I had the Mint installer use ext3. But it is on the 2nd sata drive
> (since you've set up Mint later, did you not set Mint to mbr?)
I don't recall other than I restricted the installer to /dev/sdb to
protect the other installs.
>o Where did your F12 come in? Only heard of your F12 in your latest msg.
F12 is ATM, history, I put Mint on that 2nd drive.
Sata3 is /amandatapes (backup)
And there is a 64 bit Mandriva 2009.1 on the 4th drive.
>Could you send output from blkid and fdisk -lu?
[root at coyote grub.d]# blkid
/dev/sda1: LABEL="seaboot" UUID="9848a6bb-6ecd-412d-b2f5-0fdf68102bd3" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda2: TYPE="swap" UUID="1e5d265b-0097-4699-b2f9-47e75ec2f95c"
/dev/sda3: LABEL="sea-slash" UUID="3d923d41-fe1d-49b2-9618-c03005888c41" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdc1: LABEL="/amandatapes-1-T" UUID="223e0988-3155-4935-8511-20e3edd77910" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdd1: UUID="9838db29-2ddd-46e5-835a-7c0f5eafae2a" TYPE="ext3" SEC_TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sdd5: TYPE="swap" UUID="7daaed8e-b1be-48fd-b701-852f4c904eb2"
/dev/sdd6: UUID="00a85218-ca2a-4265-bd8f-f9f511586dbc" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdd7: UUID="b832a03e-54ad-44d1-8f3e-e5322f359f90" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdd8: UUID="a00d2ff6-179d-431b-8b57-984f12a89e0d" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdd9: UUID="cbb6883f-04f3-4acb-b46b-032bb28dfea8" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdd10: UUID="ab39ede0-9b10-40e3-9fa9-2db747347934" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda5: LABEL="sea-opt" UUID="bce6a095-6e7b-475d-b8a4-f75c1ae74a11" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda6: LABEL="sea-home" UUID="7c9c7c96-4dcc-43db-8248-7dca7dd2abad" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda7: LABEL="sea-root" UUID="937fecdd-d6f8-49aa-a438-4cee9789d796" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda8: LABEL="sea-var" UUID="efbd9228-89d0-428a-86c4-dfaec8c40ebd" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda9: LABEL="sea-tmp" UUID="466c0f0b-5b5e-4a8f-a83a-a8016d9c17f3" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda10: LABEL="sea-usr" UUID="c377dbfc-caa6-464e-9d32-e75ef4b70e03" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="0937ea12-7e35-438d-a43d-02f4593bc875" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdb2: TYPE="swap" UUID="05a8fe53-ca81-4fbf-ac96-1f36719b8a0b"
/dev/sdb3: UUID="d7f00628-d213-460e-91a1-ee7b986c4fa1" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
root at coyote grub.d]# fdisk -lu
Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000e633d
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 63 835379 417658+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 835380 9237374 4200997+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 9237375 214033994 102398310 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 214033995 1953520064 869743035 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 214034058 275466554 30716248+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 275466618 336899114 30716248+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 336899178 398331674 30716248+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 398331738 459764234 30716248+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 459764298 521196794 30716248+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 521196858 1953520064 716161603+ 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders, total 781422768 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000d591b
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 63 578339 289138+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 578340 8385929 3903795 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb3 8385930 781417664 386515867+ 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0006aa28
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 63 1953520064 976760001 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdd: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0006622e
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 * 63 4948019 2473978+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdd2 4948020 1953520064 974286022+ 5 Extended
/dev/sdd5 4948083 13125104 4088511 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdd6 13125168 116294534 51584683+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdd7 116294598 327742064 105723733+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdd8 327742128 1126076174 399167023+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdd9 1126076238 1170528029 22225896 83 Linux
/dev/sdd10 1170528093 1953520064 391495986 83 Linux
[root at coyote grub.d]#
>Some points
>o grub-legacy could not boot ext4
>o second hard drives (esp usb) sometimes changes their naming
>convention upon start-up. (one day, it could be (hd1,0), next day (hd2,0))
All sata. There is a usb key of 8Gb plugged into about a 3rd level usb hub.
Tons of usb stuff here. :)
>I propose the following (after your agreement to it).....
>I shall send to your direct email address a grub2 iso file about 1 Mb
>size where you will burn to a cd.
>Boot that up to your Linux Mint and set that grub to mbr.
Send away
>Details when that grub cd boot up to grub shell is as follows...
>sh:grub>ls {check output and note down}
>sh:grub>search -f /boot/grub/grub.cfg {check output and note down}
>sh:grub>search -f /boot/grub/menu.lst {check output and note down}
>
>sh:grub>configfile (hdx,y)/boot/grub/grub.cfg
>
>
>Where (hdx,y) is your Linux Mint partition fro search output of grub.cfg
>You should boot into Linux Mint with latest command.
>
>At Linux Mint boot, set that to mbr by typing at terminal
>sudo grub-install /dev/sda
>
>You're done.
I'll give it a shot, thanks.
>Gene, let me know if you want to proceed with this.
Sure thing. Thanks.
>
>Regards,
>Goh Lip
>
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