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nepenthe
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 13, 2002 12:59 pm    Post subject: Grub problems Reply with quote

I am at the point in gentoo install where I am configurig grub, but I am having some trouble,
I go into grub

grub> root (hd0,
Partition num: 0, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
Partition num: 4, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x83
Partition num: 5, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x83
Partition num: 6, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x82
Partition num: 7, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7


all the partitons say unknown type, when 4 and 5 are reiserfs and 0 and 7 are NTFS..... so say if I tryed to do
grub>root (hd0,5)

I cant its unknown file type cant mount or something.....
anyhelp greatly appricated.
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 13, 2002 1:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi,
I had a similar experience when formatting my /boot partition as reiserfs: grub refuses to install because of unknown fs type (maybe reiserfs v. 3.5 or 3.6 matters?). Anyway formatting it as ext2fs (and installing grub files, of course!) makes grub happy.
Now if only grub could boot my IBM 40G Deskstar /dev/hda1 I will be happy ;) ...
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 13, 2002 5:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I tryed that, grub saw the boot partition as ext3 but still couldn't see the others.. or mount them and etc..... I'm starting whole process over again from stage1 this time boot is ext3 and yada yada yada =\
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 14, 2002 5:45 am    Post subject: um, what is overiding package.mask? Reply with quote

I tried to Force the newer version of grub to make it work
Code:
emerge unmerge grub
cd /usr/portage/sys-aps/grub
emerge grub-0.92.ebuild
but it fails when you issue 'setup(hd0)'

Is their an easy way to view dependancy/decision tree for a specific e-build? i.e. emerge grub backed down to 0.90 because of ncurses, ncurses is specified in package.mask...

back story:

I also had issues with grub in 1.4_rc1... it would report unkown filesystem for 2 of my three reiserfs partitons. My oldest partiton ( /home ) being the only one it will report correctly.

Since my partitons from the prior 1.2 install were identical, I held my breath ( what choice did i have ) and rebooted. It worked ok, but still the new grub does not like my reiserfs partiton.
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