-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am 06.03.2013 22:40, schrieb Francesco Pietra: > ... I must confess that I am confused, or my description was unclear. Hope > not to bother you, I summarize my procedure; > Using the amd64 wheezy beta 4 installer, downloaded Feb 1, 2013, I got the same situation as described above by "fdisk -l". > That installation ended by asking "install grub on /dev/sda?". > I accepted the proposal, whereby the terminal showed grub-install /dev/sda > update grub > At next boot, I run > grub-install /dev/sdb > which was accepted without any error or warning message. > After "shutdown -h now", trying to boot, the system entered "grub rescue". ...
Hello debian users, I can verify the error Francesco reported. I have a Laptop, swapped the optical drive for a ssd. To test debian 7. There is already windows and debian 6 on sda with grub installed on sda. The installation was fine an ended with grub installing two Linux boot entries (sda, sdb) and one entry for windows on sda (very sad you can't choose the device grub should install at this point). And it does work well. As I thought by myself: It would be nice to use the ssd as an emergency (usb) boot device for other computers, it was mbr formated and the root partition was marked as bootable. So it should have grub installed to it, too. I thought "grub-install /dev/sdb" should be enough to make the sdb bootable. Done that without an error message. But ... I restarted the Laptop, telling the BIOS to boot from ssd (sdb) ... I get the error: symbol not found: 'grub_divmod64_full' And all I get is the 'grub rescue' prompt. On the other hand ... I have a desktop running windows on sda (without grub) and debian 7 & grub on sdb. To boot into Linux, I change the BIOS boot device to sdb. I have choosen the sdb even before installing Linux. I assume Linux isn't messed up by this. But on the Laptop (or Francescos raid1 setup) it gets confused, because the BIOS (or the lost raid1 drive) changed the numbering of the disks? But what's the point of installing grub on more than one disk, if it doesn't boot when one disk is missing? Thanks Ralf Saalmüller -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlE4R/QACgkQtKcsE7vsbMHjgwCfecEGdd0ZPo/A9UgXjJddyU6Q fQgAn0k2NWUORXhNOzzrzIUR6DSvFHAT =+DcM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/513847f4.3090...@ralf-saalmueller.de