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muhsinzubeir
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 Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 10:45 pm Post subject: char_io.c:181 grub driving me nuts{solved} |
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mmh i see somebody opened a bug on this...but the bug is unresolved bug report
I just cant install grub, i get craps like boot partition isnt mounted en im sure its mounted checked with "df -h".Here is the snippets of the error:
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* QA Notice: Package has poor programming practices which may compile
* fine but exhibit random runtime failures.
* builtins.c:4870: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
char_io.c:181: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
char_io.c:222: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
disk_io.c:1116: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
disk_io.c:1146: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
tparm.c:719: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
builtins.c:4870: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
char_io.c:181: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
char_io.c:222: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
disk_io.c:1116: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
disk_io.c:1146: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
tparm.c:719: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
char_io.c:181: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
char_io.c:181: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
char_io.c:181: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
char_io.c:181: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
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| Code: | then it dies like this: * ERROR: sys-boot/grub-0.97-r6 failed.
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 49: Called pkg_preinst
* environment, line 2696: Called mount-boot_pkg_preinst
* environment, line 2543: Called mount-boot_mount_boot_partition
* environment, line 2532: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* die "Please mount your /boot partition manually!";
* The die message:
* Please mount your /boot partition manually!
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Any idea?Thanks for your time
P:S
Im goin to try an newer version, ill report back if get through
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cyrillic
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 11:55 pm Post subject: |
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You may want to try an older version instead (grub-0.97-r4 seems to work well)
... unless you want to try grub2.
ps. I have grub2 from cvs working on several of my machines. I tried this because I could not get the one in portage to work properly. |
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muhsinzubeir
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| Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 7:04 am Post subject: |
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thanks....remounting proc seemed to reduce the errors en now im left with just the floppy error...
ill mark it resolved
cheers..
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