Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 grub ext4

2011-04-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 21:09:17 -0500, Mark Shields wrote:

  If /boot is on a separate partition, you should be using
 
  find /grub/stage1

 If the symlink is there for boot - /boot -- and it is by default --
 both work.

I've found GRUB's handling of symlinks to be variable at best. Try
searching for the real file.


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[gentoo-user] raid1 grub ext4

2011-04-11 Thread James
Hello,

Following the guides (previous post) I'm not able to set
up grub:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/RAID

grub find /boot/grub/stage1

does not work, even though the stage one file is there 
grub.conf look like the example in these files.

grub  root (hd0,0)
 Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xfd


I used ext4 for / and /boot partitions.
(is this a problem? (sys-boot/grub-0.97-r10}

ideas? lots of old posts about not being
able to boot grub-0.97 off of ext4, unless
patched?

James







Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 grub ext4

2011-04-11 Thread Mick
On Monday 11 April 2011 19:12:36 James wrote:
 Hello,
 
 Following the guides (previous post) I'm not able to set
 up grub:
 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml
 http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/RAID
 
 grub find /boot/grub/stage1
 
 does not work, even though the stage one file is there
 grub.conf look like the example in these files.
 
 grub  root (hd0,0)
  Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xfd
 
 
 I used ext4 for / and /boot partitions.
 (is this a problem? (sys-boot/grub-0.97-r10}
 
 ideas? lots of old posts about not being
 able to boot grub-0.97 off of ext4, unless
 patched?

James, if I'm not wrong (legacy) sys-boot/grub-0.97-r10 does not have drivers 
for ext4.  Not sure if there's a patch for it, or if grub2 can boot from ext4.

Either way, why is it that /boot needs to be on ext4?
-- 
Regards,
Mick


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Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 grub ext4

2011-04-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:12:36 + (UTC), James wrote:

 grub find /boot/grub/stage1  
 
 does not work, even though the stage one file is there 
 
 I used ext4 for / and /boot partitions.

If /boot is on a separate partition, you should be using

find /grub/stage1


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Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 grub ext4

2011-04-11 Thread Mark Shields
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:

 On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:12:36 + (UTC), James wrote:

  grub find /boot/grub/stage1
 
  does not work, even though the stage one file is there
 
  I used ext4 for / and /boot partitions.

 If /boot is on a separate partition, you should be using

 find /grub/stage1


 --
 Neil Bothwick

 Religious error: (A)tone, (R)epent, (I)mmolate?


If the symlink is there for boot - /boot -- and it is by default -- both
work.


Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 grub ext4

2011-04-11 Thread Stroller

On 11/4/2011, at 9:18pm, Mick wrote:
 ...
 I used ext4 for / and /boot partitions.
 (is this a problem? (sys-boot/grub-0.97-r10}
 
 James, if I'm not wrong (legacy) sys-boot/grub-0.97-r10 does not have drivers 
 for ext4.  Not sure if there's a patch for it, or if grub2 can boot from ext4.

Use ext2 for /boot, James.

There's no need for extents on such a small partition, nor journalling (because 
you write to /boot so rarely, the likelihood of a power failure when you're 
doing so is minuscule).

Stroller.