Re: [gentoo-user] grub: how to install new version of stage 1

2009-05-31 Thread John P. Burkett
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 30 May 2009 20:59:00 John P. Burkett wrote: The manual suggests doing grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sda but later says If your system does not have any floppy drives, add the --no-floppy option to the above command to prevent grub from probing the

Re: [gentoo-user] grub: how to install new version of stage 1

2009-05-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 31 May 2009 18:12:34 John P. Burkett wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 30 May 2009 20:59:00 John P. Burkett wrote: The manual suggests doing grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sda but later says If your system does not have any floppy drives, add the --no-floppy option to the

Re: [gentoo-user] grub: how to install new version of stage 1

2009-05-31 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 30. Mai 2009 20:59:00 schrieb John P. Burkett: On a x86 machine I did emerge -D -uav world and got a response that read in part as follows: * Messages for package sys-boot/grub-0.97-r9: There's no need whatsoever to update grub once it's in your MBR. There's even no need to keep

Re: [gentoo-user] grub: how to install new version of stage 1

2009-05-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 31 May 2009 19:43:55 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: On a x86 machine I did emerge -D -uav world and got a response that read in part as follows: * Messages for package sys-boot/grub-0.97-r9: There's no need whatsoever to update grub once it's in your MBR. There's even no need

Re: [gentoo-user] grub: how to install new version of stage 1

2009-05-31 Thread John P. Burkett
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 31 May 2009 18:12:34 John P. Burkett wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 30 May 2009 20:59:00 John P. Burkett wrote: The manual suggests doing grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sda but later says If your system does not have any floppy drives, add the

Re: [gentoo-user] grub: how to install new version of stage 1

2009-05-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 31 May 2009 22:06:45 John P. Burkett wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 31 May 2009 18:12:34 John P. Burkett wrote: In my /dev directory, I see a sda and a md1 file. Suggestions for diagnosing or resolving the problem would be much appreciated. John md1 is a

Re: [gentoo-user] grub: how to install new version of stage 1

2009-05-31 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 31. Mai 2009 19:57:01 schrieb Neil Bothwick: Not updating your MBR means your stage 1 is a different version from your stage1.5 and stage2, which may or may not cause problems. Or you you mean there's no need to install the newer version at all? Yes, so that the above cannot

[gentoo-user] grub: how to install new version of stage 1

2009-05-30 Thread John P. Burkett
On a x86 machine I did emerge -D -uav world and got a response that read in part as follows: * Messages for package sys-boot/grub-0.97-r9: * * To avoid automounting and autoinstalling with /boot, * just export the DONT_MOUNT_BOOT variable. * * *** IMPORTANT NOTE: you must run grub and

Re: [gentoo-user] grub: how to install new version of stage 1

2009-05-30 Thread Dale
John P. Burkett wrote: On a x86 machine I did emerge -D -uav world and got a response that read in part as follows: * Messages for package sys-boot/grub-0.97-r9: * * To avoid automounting and autoinstalling with /boot, * just export the DONT_MOUNT_BOOT variable. * * *** IMPORTANT

Re: [gentoo-user] grub: how to install new version of stage 1

2009-05-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 30 May 2009 20:59:00 John P. Burkett wrote: The manual suggests doing grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sda but later says If your system does not have any floppy drives, add the --no-floppy option to the above command to prevent grub from probing the (non-existing) floppy drives. My