This is a debian woody laptop with 1 ide disk.
the package from woody said this when i tried to install - must be a
packaging problem?
here is what I do in the grub shell
grub> root (hd0,4)
<2, 0, 1024><128, 0, 204><16, 0, 204><64, 0, 168> Filesystem type
unknown, part
ition type 0x83
grub> setup (hd0)
<2, 0, 1024><128, 0, 204><16, 0, 204><64, 0, 168>
Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition
so I upgraded to the sid package which is more promising.
when i run grub-install i get this nastygram:
bwlnote:/usr/share/doc/grub/examples# grub-install /dev/hda
GRUB version 0.91 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB
lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the
possible
completions of a device/filename. ]
grub> root (hd0,4)
Filesystem type is xfs, partition type 0x83
grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 --prefix=/boot/grub (hd0)
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/xfs_stage1_5" exists... yes
Running "embed /boot/grub/xfs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 19 sectors are embedded.
succeeded
Running "install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1 d (hd0)
(hd0)1+1
9 p (hd0,4)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... failed
Error 6: Mismatched or corrupt version of stage1/stage2
so i look at /boot/grub/stage*
ls -l /boot/grub/stage*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Feb 7 00:18 /boot/grub/stage1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 95712 Feb 7 00:18 /boot/grub/stage2
and they look to match so i try to do manual install
grub> root
(fd0): Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x0
grub> root (hd0,4)
Filesystem type is xfs, partition type 0x83
grub> setup (hd0)
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/xfs_stage1_5" exists... yes
Running "embed /boot/grub/xfs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 19 sectors are embedded.
succeeded
Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 d (hd0) (hd0)1+19 p
(hd0,4)/boot/grub/stage
2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded
Done.
so what's the deal here?
why does grub-install fail where setup succeeds?
brad
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