Re: switch from Reiserfs to ext3: Grub or LILO won't install

[Netbasics Beheer <beheer@netbasics.nl>]

Has somebody got a clue? Please tell me if this is the wrong mailinglist.

thanks,
Anne

> I installed the amd64 version of Sarge. I chose Reiserfs, did my testing
> and installed it again on a ext3 partition.
>
> Now Grub won't install:
> The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly
> (/boot actually doesn't exist)
>
> same for LILO. It hangs at
> Setting up LILO 22.6.1-6.2
>
> I tried everything from automatic partitioning to manually creating
> partitions.
> I also cleared the MBR using:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1024 count=1
>
> Nothing helps. Interesting part is when I reinstall on a Reiserfs
> partition again, Grub installs fine.
>
> It's a RAID5 setup. When installing on Reiserfs I don't need to do
> anything special so I don't see why ext3 would be different.
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