* Michael Raskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-05-20 15:47:32+0400] > > >> Finally I've solved this problem chrooting into my Debian system and > > >> getting connection up from there. Installation went smoothly, but in the > > >> end there was a failure to install grub loader for some reason. Message > > >> was something like "grub/stage1 not read", and there was no changes to > > >> my boot loader. > > > > > > This sounds a lot like the grub problems that others had two weeks ago or > > > so (also "grub/stage1 not read"). The cause was that the latest version > > > of mke2fs generates ext2/ext3 filesystems that Grub can't read (due to > > > the size of inodes having changed from 128 to 256 bytes). We have now > > > added a patch to Grub that fixes this. The latest ISOs > > > (http://nixos.org/releases/nixos/nixos-0.1pre11797-7811s3qf/) should > > > include this fix. What version did you download? > > > > I downloaded nixos-0.1pre11797-i686-linux.iso, and ext2 filesystem was > > created using mke2fs 1.40.8, inode size is indeed 256. > > Please, can you check if it is reproducible under QEmu? With exactly > your setup. The same /boot placement, same types of partitions etc. Do > you have any extra options on the partition?
I don't use separate /boot partition, if you mean this. I'll try with QEmu when I have time (hopefully this week). -- Roman I. Cheplyaka :: http://ro-che.info/ ...being in love is totally punk rock... _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
