On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 11:50:42AM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
> From: Neal H Walfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: A few notes on my experience
> Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 23:29:15 -0500
>
> > What format do you want install_device in? grub? linux?
>
> Read the manual.
I did. It was more of a statement than a question. Ie I feel that
most new users who type in grub install expecting help will still be
confused.
> > Should grub identify linux swap?
>
> Why?
Why not. Seems that it should be a two liner and could help
answer the question, what partition am I looking at?
I will get you a patch when I have the time and you do not think
it is a waste.
>
> > After installing grub on the first partition of my primary slave
> > (setup (hd0,0); note it is the first bootable disk) and then
> > booting, grub would say:
> >
> > stage1 stage1 stage1.... (forever)
>
> What did the command setup display? Showing only the result doesn't
> help us to figure out what happened.
grub> root (hd0,
Possible partitions are:
Partition num: 0, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
Partition num: 4, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x83
Partition num: 5, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
grub> root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
grub> setup (hd0,0)
Run "install /boot/grub/stage1 d (hd0,0) /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 p /boot/grub/
stage2"
>
> > grub> kernel (hd1,<tab>
> > error reading geometry ....
>
> The exact message is necessary.
It was an ERR_GEOM "Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS"
>
> > Note that it could read the partition ok. Also note that tab completion
> > work correctly before installing grub.
>
> I suspect that GRUB might make your partition table corrupt. Try to
> run fdisk (cfdisk, or whatever you like) and check it.
Will advise him to do so.
Thanks a lot.
-Neal
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