On Tuesday, April 07 2009, Hans de Goede said: > I just spend (lost) way too much time on some grub weirdness, > so I thought it would be a good idea to write it down somewhere. [snip] > Then I tried to setup grub manually (using a device.map > for the dmraid BIOS mapping), but when I entered: > grub> root (hd0,1) > grub> setup (hd0) > > Grub complained it could fined neither of /grub/stage1 > and /boot/grub/stage1, where as ls clearly shows > /boot/grub/stage1, it can be successfully cat-ed etc. > Which explains why the setup failed, but why does grub > not find stage1? grub reads directly from the device rather than going through the fs layer for this stuff. I wonder if we're seeing similar problems due to things not being fully written to disk at that point :/ > So now I tried to use p3, the 200 MB swap as /boot, grub now > complained it used cylinders beyond the BIOS address limit. > It seems the BIOS cannot address cylinders above circa 10240, > do we sanity check our /boot (or /) for this ? You shouldn't need to worry about that at this point. But if it's complaining, maybe try adding '--force-lba' to the install command line? Maybe something with dmraid is confusing the built-in checking within grub and so we do need to start forcing again in some cases Jeremy _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
