On 11/11/09, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > > OK, I assume you are still within the chroot environment.
No, this system has been running regularly with grub1 since January 2009. > What is the result of: > > ls -l /dev/sd* r...@lfs:~# ls -l /dev/sd* brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 2009-11-11 18:13 /dev/sda brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 2009-11-11 18:13 /dev/sda1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 10 2009-11-11 18:13 /dev/sda10 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 11 2009-11-11 23:13 /dev/sda11 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 12 2009-11-11 18:13 /dev/sda12 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 13 2009-11-11 18:13 /dev/sda13 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 14 2009-11-11 18:13 /dev/sda14 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 15 2009-11-11 18:13 /dev/sda15 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 2009-11-11 18:13 /dev/sda2 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 3 2009-11-11 18:13 /dev/sda3 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 5 2009-11-11 18:13 /dev/sda5 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 6 2009-11-11 18:13 /dev/sda6 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 7 2009-11-11 18:13 /dev/sda7 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 8 2009-11-11 18:13 /dev/sda8 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 9 2009-11-11 18:13 /dev/sda9 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 16 2009-11-11 18:13 /dev/sdb brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 17 2009-11-11 18:13 /dev/sdb1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 18 2009-11-11 18:13 /dev/sdb2 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 21 2009-11-11 18:13 /dev/sdb5 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 22 2009-11-11 18:13 /dev/sdb6 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 23 2009-11-11 18:13 /dev/sdb7 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 24 2009-11-11 18:13 /dev/sdb8 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 25 2009-11-11 18:13 /dev/sdb9 > > Lets see if we can get the grub-install command to work properly first > and then we can address other issues. *Within the chroot environment* > remove all files in /boot/grub and check that /dev/sda and /dev/sdb are > present (at a minimum). Then try > ??? does grub2 _not_ work _unless_ *Within the chroot environment* ??? That would seem peculiar to me. Currently, I am not in chroot. > grub-mkdevicemap --verbose --device-map=device.map r...@lfs:~# rm /boot/grub/* r...@lfs:~# grub-mkdevicemap -v r...@lfs:~# cat /boot/grub/* (fd0) /dev/fd0 (hd0) /dev/sda (hd1) /dev/sdb ... it doesn't _verbose_ for me ... either -v or --verbose ... > The only thing in /boot/grub should be device.map. Now try: > > grub-install --grub-setup=/bin/true /dev/sda r...@lfs:~# grub-install --grub-setup=/bin/true /dev/sda error: cannot seek `/dev/sda' error: cannot seek `/dev/sdb' error: cannot seek `/dev/sdb' error: cannot seek `/dev/sda' error: cannot seek `/dev/sdb' error: cannot seek `/dev/sdb' grub-probe: error: Cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sda11. Check your device.map. Auto-detection of a filesystem module failed. Please specify the module with the option `--modules' explicitly. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
