Filippo Cattaneo wrote:
Years of Debian esperience, new to SL, 3rd attempt at installing 5.4.
I specify that grub should be installed in the root partition, in my case
/dev/hda4. I use GAG as pure boot selector, each OS has its own bootload
er
on-partition.
Due to history, /dev/hda4 is the second primary, right after hda1 on the
disk.
I decline to rearrange partition order, and also decline to add other OS'
s
to the SL grub boot menu as proffered by installer.
On 1st boot I consistently find no bootloader on /dev/hda4. Other OS's b
oot
fine.
Booted rescue twice, chrooted to root partition, I see the fileysytem whe
re
it should be - i.e. the system seemingly doesn't get confused by partitio
ns
not being in order.
Attempted this:
grub-install /dev/hda4
I repeatedly get this message:
error reading stage 1
I failed to find references to this on the list.
Is this a known problem?
Did I miss something in the archives?
TIA!
Hi,
Every time I've had a
"error reading stage 1"
it has been because I didn't really let the installer install *anything*
on my disk. Meaning, that instead of having it put grub on my root
partition, I don't have it install grub anywhere.
If you don't tell it to put grub on any partition, it doesn't setup grub
at all. So you will be missing some critical files.
How to check if this is so?
Do a
ls /boot/grub/
and see if it looks similar to this
# ls /boot/grub/
device.map grub.conf minix_stage1_5 stage2
e2fs_stage1_5 iso9660_stage1_5 reiserfs_stage1_5 ufs2_stage1_5
fat_stage1_5 jfs_stage1_5 splash.xpm.gz vstafs_stage1_5
ffs_stage1_5 menu.lst stage1 xfs_stage1_5
#
Troy
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