On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 15:06 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Good point Trent. I do recommend the use of a separate 100M partition
> for /boot for all OSes installed. It avoids that kind of problem.
Only for Linux. Not much help for Windows, which Dan was asking about.
I don't think I'd use such a
Trent Shea wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 July 2010 12:48:07 Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> Note the line:
>>
>> list=`for i in /boot/vmlinu[xz]-* /vmlinu[xz]-* ; do
>> if grub_file_is_not_garbage "$i" ; then echo -n "$i " ; fi
>>done`
>>
>> It is looking for specific kernel names in /boot.
>
>
On Wednesday 21 July 2010 12:48:07 Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Note the line:
>
> list=`for i in /boot/vmlinu[xz]-* /vmlinu[xz]-* ; do
> if grub_file_is_not_garbage "$i" ; then echo -n "$i " ; fi
>done`
>
> It is looking for specific kernel names in /boot.
I'm pretty sure that will onl
Trent Shea wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 July 2010 06:08:46 Dan McGhee wrote:
>> The precise answer to your question is, no, I haven't done that yet. By
>> "seeing" other stuff" I'm referring to grub-mkconfig. I thought it would
>> "out of the box." I know I can add those menu entries, and I'm going t
On Wednesday 21 July 2010 06:08:46 Dan McGhee wrote:
> The precise answer to your question is, no, I haven't done that yet. By
> "seeing" other stuff" I'm referring to grub-mkconfig. I thought it would
> "out of the box." I know I can add those menu entries, and I'm going to.
> I was hoping that
On 7/21/10, Dan McGhee wrote:
> On 07/21/2010 06:08 AM, Andrew Benton wrote:
>> On 21/07/10 01:25, Dan McGhee wrote:
>>
>>> It's nagging me that currently grub sees nothing but my new LFS system.
>>>
Grub2 supposedly searches for one of the specific kernel name prefixes of:
vmlinuz
vmlinux
(/etc/
On 07/21/2010 06:08 AM, Andrew Benton wrote:
> On 21/07/10 01:25, Dan McGhee wrote:
>
>> It's nagging me that currently grub sees nothing but my new LFS system.
>>
> So did you try adding this to grub.cfg?
>
> menuentry "Windows" {
> set root=(hd0,1)
> chainloader +1
> }
>
> And f
On 21/07/10 01:25, Dan McGhee wrote:
> It's nagging me that currently grub sees nothing but my new LFS system.
So did you try adding this to grub.cfg?
menuentry "Windows" {
set root=(hd0,1)
chainloader +1
}
And for what it's worth, this boots Ubunut for me:
menuentry "Ubunut" {
set roo
On 07/20/2010 06:35 PM, Neal Murphy wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 July 2010 18:00:12 Dan McGhee wrote:
>
>> If you'd allow me to rant just for a second--or longer--the
>> documentation for grub over the years has left a little to be desired
>>
> You are much too kind, sir, exhibiting a forebeara
On Tuesday 20 July 2010 18:00:12 Dan McGhee wrote:
> If you'd allow me to rant just for a second--or longer--the
> documentation for grub over the years has left a little to be desired
You are much too kind, sir, exhibiting a forebearance that continues to escape
me.
--
http://linuxfromscratch.o
linux fan wrote:
> On 7/20/10, Dan McGhee wrote:
>
Since my post of just an hour ago, my options have been reduced to
one--write to the MBR. One of the files needed to make a completely
independent bootable grub disk is stage2_eltorito, which is not present
in /usr/lib/grub/i3
On 7/20/10, Dan McGhee wrote:
>>> Since my post of just an hour ago, my options have been reduced to
>>> one--write to the MBR. One of the files needed to make a completely
>>> independent bootable grub disk is stage2_eltorito, which is not present
>>> in /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/, or anywhere else
Dan McGhee wrote:
>> Since my post of just an hour ago, my options have been reduced to
>> one--write to the MBR.
> And that's what I did. I got booted successfully except that I learned
> that I had not set a password for root nor added any other users so I
> didn't get to "play."
I generally
On 07/20/2010 04:42 PM, Neal Murphy wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 July 2010 17:21:32 Dan McGhee wrote:
>
>> Since my post of just an hour ago, my options have been reduced to
>> one--write to the MBR. One of the files needed to make a completely
>> independent bootable grub disk is stage2_eltorito, wh
On 07/20/2010 04:21 PM, Dan McGhee wrote:
> On 07/20/2010 03:25 PM, Dan McGhee wrote:
>
>> On 07/20/2010 01:07 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>>
>>
>>> The only thing that adds GRUB to a MBR is grub-setup, but I understand
>>> you'or position. It's probably best to makes shure your new LFS boots
On Tuesday 20 July 2010 17:21:32 Dan McGhee wrote:
> Since my post of just an hour ago, my options have been reduced to
> one--write to the MBR. One of the files needed to make a completely
> independent bootable grub disk is stage2_eltorito, which is not present
> in /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/, or any
On 07/20/2010 03:25 PM, Dan McGhee wrote:
> On 07/20/2010 01:07 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
>> Dan McGhee wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> I truly don't want to install Grub into the MBR, since grub may get put
>>> in the MBR of the usb drive again, at this moment. I see two options:
>>>
>>>
>> T
On 07/20/2010 01:07 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Dan McGhee wrote:
>
>
>> I truly don't want to install Grub into the MBR, since grub may get put
>> in the MBR of the usb drive again, at this moment. I see two options:
>>
> The only thing that adds GRUB to a MBR is grub-setup, but I understan
On 7/20/10, Dan McGhee wrote:
> The speed bumps that I mention in the grammatically incorrect subject
> line have grown to a mountain range higher than the Himalayas.
>
With grub 2, the first thing to do is panic. Done.
The second thing is "don't panic."
>
> 1. Review the grub-0.97 manual and us
Dan McGhee wrote:
> I truly don't want to install Grub into the MBR, since grub may get put
> in the MBR of the usb drive again, at this moment. I see two options:
The only thing that adds GRUB to a MBR is grub-setup, but I understand
you'or position. It's probably best to makes shure your new
The speed bumps that I mention in the grammatically incorrect subject
line have grown to a mountain range higher than the Himalayas. The last
failure was the grub rescue cd--it wouldn't, or at least my system
prevented it, boot.
Until I repartitioned for this LFS build, I had a working CLFS-mul
On 20/07/10 04:05, Dan McGhee wrote:
> I understand that, and I'm thinking that it really doesn't make a
> difference that Grub doesn't see the other stuff right now. Ultimately I
> don't care if it doesn't find sdb, I just want Windows and LFS on my
> internal hard drive. I figure that if I can bo
On 07/19/2010 09:35 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
> What is the contents of /boot?
I'm not using a separate partition. But it contains:
> System.map-2.6.34.1 config-2.6.34.1 grub vmlinux-2.6.34.1-lfs-SVN-20100718
>What about /boot/grub/device.map?
>
> (hd0) /dev/sda
> (hd1) /dev/sdb
> The rea
Dan McGhee wrote:
> First of all, I'm a complete noob when it comes to Grub 2. Ubuntu
> 10.04, my host system, uses it, but so far to me it's magic.
>
> I've just almost completed an LFS-SVN build. The last step is Grub.
>
> My disk setup is relevant to the discussion
>
> sda: sda1 (windows);
First of all, I'm a complete noob when it comes to Grub 2. Ubuntu
10.04, my host system, uses it, but so far to me it's magic.
I've just almost completed an LFS-SVN build. The last step is Grub.
My disk setup is relevant to the discussion
sda: sda1 (windows); sda2 ; sda3 (swap);
sda4 (Recove
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