On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:30 AM, lee <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 03:49:28PM +0200, lee wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 09:25:19AM -0400, Tom H wrote: >> > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 8:50 AM, lee <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 12:22:28PM +0200, Emil Micek wrote: >> > >> On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, lee wrote: > >> > >> As far as i know grub2 can't boot from raid arrays with version 1.2 >> > >> metadata superblock. At least your /boot partition must reside on >> > >> RAID with version 0.9 superblock. >> > > >> > grub2 (1.98+20100720-1) unstable; urgency=low >> >> There seems to be version 1.98+20100 in testing, so it should work: >> >> yun:~# apt-cache show grub2 >> Version: 1.98+20100804-4 >> >> need to/can I somehow use chroot to switch to the new root partition >> and then use grub-install or grub-mkconfig from there so that it will >> create the grub.cfg as needed? > > Ok, I tried with chroot, but grub-install doesn't create a grub.cfg at > all. It only warns about improperly nested partitions and an unknown > filesystem as before but says the installation finished with no > errors. > > When running grub-mkconfig, I'm getting the following output (letting > aside the warnings and the error message about the unknown filesystem): > > ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ### > if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then > load_env > fi > set default="0" > if [ "${prev_saved_entry}" ]; then > set saved_entry="${prev_saved_entry}" > save_env saved_entry > set prev_saved_entry= > save_env prev_saved_entry > set boot_once=true > fi > > function savedefault { > if [ -z "${boot_once}" ]; then > saved_entry="${chosen}" > save_env saved_entry > fi > } > > function load_video { > insmod vbe > insmod vga > insmod video_bochs > insmod video_cirrus > } > > insmod raid > insmod mdraid > insmod part_msdos > insmod part_msdos > > ... and that's all. The last line when grub-mkconfig prints to stdout is: > > /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: unknown filesystem. > > > All the partitions use ext4. Doesn't grub know about ext4?
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