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PostPosted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 1:55 am    Post subject: cannot emerge grub [discontinued] Reply with quote

So, I basically cp all the files of gentoo on my other drive to gentoo on my new drive but grub did not work as planned. I tried to install grub but got an error that said /lib/grub did not exist. Here are some logs:

http://bpaste.net/show/86588/ emerge --info

http://bpaste.net/show/86589/ full log

Thanks.


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PostPosted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 2:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kas,

Exactly how did you copy the files :?:
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 8:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

First, I mounted both and was like cp -a /mnt/gentoo/old /mnt/gentoo.

Then, a guy in the IRC told me to try to rsync everything so I was like
rsync -av /mnt/gentoo/old/ /mnt/gentoo

--I don't exactly remember where the / were.
I first actually ran the rsync command with --progress but then it ran for like 4 hours so i ctrl-c it and ran it without progress.

Anyway, it doesn't matter because grub still won't emerge. I think I should just install new since it would probably just be faster to do that anyway but I'm not sure.

Thanks.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 8:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kas_,

What profile are you using?

You cannot use grub on /no-multilib as grub is a 32 bit program. On /no-multilib you must use grub-static and to run grub-static, to install it to the MBR, your kernel needs to support 32 bit binaries.

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Code:
Portage 2.1.11.55 (default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop ....

Forget it, that's a multilib profile
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 9:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm using default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop

lol, nvm. So should I just install it like normal? If i do that, do I need to delete all the stuff on the drive first?
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 10:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kas_,

Just fix grub. There is no need to reinstall everything.

Does your kernel have support for running 32 bit binaries?

Code:
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... (cached) x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -m32
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... configure: error: in `/var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-0.97-r12/work/grub-0.97':
configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.

The test program was compiled but could not be run. We need to
Code:
See `config.log' for more details


Can you post that log file?
Its in /var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-0.97-r12/... somewhere
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 11:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's kinda unfortunate...I already did re-install everything.

But thanks for helping.

--edit--
actually. there's more of a problem than that. I did re-install but grub but I have this same problem as this guy. https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-828186-start-0.html
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