ping Goh Lip - grub2 specialist

Christopher Chan christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Wed Sep 22 01:52:47 UTC 2010


On Wednesday, September 22, 2010 09:33 AM, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Christopher Chan
> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>  wrote:
>> Got two disks, sda and sdb. Two primary partitions on each (1,2) with
>> the 1 partitions going to md0 for raid1, ext2 and the 2 partitions going
>> to md1 for raid1, pv.
>>
>> grub-install will complain about "unknown device" if I feed it /dev/sda
>> or dev/sdb or '(hd0)' but will complain about "Can't embed core.img blah
>> blah" if I feed it /dev/md0. Rather, grub-setup will complain after
>> grub-install passes the flags onto grub-setup.
>
> I believe you want it to be:
> grub-install /dev/sda1 (and) grub-install /dev/sdb1
>

Why would I want to stick grub on the boot partition and not the MBR?

Anyway, in your interest, I went ahead and tried anyway. Lo and behold! 
unknown device. Please leave this one to Goh Lip. I am sure he has some 
work around or knows what I missed such that grub2 on Hardy is misbehaving.




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