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cubancigar11
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 Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 3:30 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] Grub cannot see stage1 even though it exists |
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Hi!
Help me... I am in dire need!
I have installed Gentoo from latest live CD (actually I converted it into a bootable USB), and then installed it in /dev/sda2 (my master disk is SCSI)
But I am unable to install grub.
Following are the steps I follow:
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# mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/gentoo
# mount -t proc proc /mnt/gentoo/proc
# mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentpo/proc
# chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
# cat /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab
# env-update
# source /etc/profile
# grub
grub> root (hd0,1) <---- the scsi is detected as hd0. This is probably OK because that is how it was in previous slackware install.
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
grub> setup (hd0)
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
Checking if "/boot/stage1" exists... no
Error 2: Bad file or directory type
grub> quit <---- ofcourse 
# ls /boot/grub/stage1
/boot/grub/stage1
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What could be the problem!
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Yep! That's it! I repartitioned /dev/sda2 as reiserfs and everything went fine.
Wonder if no-one tried installing on an ext3 partition before?
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That's very interesting news. My /boot is on ext2, but now I want to try it on ext3 on my test machine just to see what's going on.
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