Another problem documented is that cfdisk makes a system incompatible for grub2 installation since grub2 expects everything to start at sector 2048 and cfdisk starts everything at sector 63. On Tue, 7 Aug 2012, Mauro Santos wrote: > On 06-08-2012 23:20, David C. Rankin wrote: > > > I noticed that too. Also, if you just follow the beginners guide without using > > the grub2 page, you end up installing grub2 wrong because the beginners guide > > omits the --target flag for grub-install. There should be links to: > > > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Grub2#Install_to_440-byte_MBR_boot_code_region > > > > for the most common install. Instead the beginners_guide just says to: > > > > grub-install /dev/sda > > > > which according to the grub2 wiki will result in the grub2 error on: > > > > "source_dir doesn't exist" > > After reading the wiki and the man page I did use only 'grub-install > /dev/sda' and it worked without any problems for the 3 systems that I > have converted to use grub2. > > As I see it --target should not be needed if grub is going to run from > the same machine/architecture it was installed with. The man page says: > > --target=TARGET > install GRUB for TARGET platform [default=current] > > If grub can't decide correctly on what is the current platform, it > sounds like a bug with grub and it should be reported upstream so it can > be fixed. > > Support your local church or synagogue, worship at Bank Of America! ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jude <jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net> <http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html>
