Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 11:48:07 +0100, marc wrote:
Matthew Dawson said...
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On Tuesday 11 July 2006 17:03, marc wrote:
Hi,
I have a little problem :-o
Machine has Windows on sda2 vfat, which is the MBR. (sda1 is not used),
Linux on sda3, sda4 contains sda5 swap, sda6 ext Linux, sda7 is vfat
shared space.
Here's the story, so far
- moved Linux (on sda3) to a safe place while booted on another
partition (sda6)
- formatted sda3 as reiserfs
- amended both fstabs (sda3 and sda6)
- mounted the newly formatted sda3 partition
- moved the data back onto sda3
- rebooted.
Grub currently loads from /boot on sda3, or rather it doesn't now. I'm
getting an error 17 : Cannot mount selected partition. I'm not overly
surprised, but I'm not sure what to do next.
I can mount the partition from a live CD without a problem, and I
obviously mounted it from my sda6 partition.
Suggestions welcomed.
It would seem that grub only embeded support for ext2, which is what it should
do because the partition was ext (it uses ext2 support for both ext3 and
ext2). What you have to do is embed the reiserfs support.
Try mounting the all the partitions as normal from a livecd, then chrooting
into it and running update-grub. That should fix the problem.
Just got back to this. Nope, update-grub only "updated" menu.lst, no
changes to the initrd.
sudo dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-....
should rebuild your initrd. (For older kernels it is "kernel-image"
instead of "linux-image".)
If that does not work in the chroot environment then you can call
mkinitrd or mkinitrd.yaird directly.
I looked up GNU GRUB Manual
0.97(http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/index.html),
seems like u problem is this.
- 17 : Cannot mount selected partition
- This error is returned if the partition requested exists, but the
filesystem type cannot be recognized by GRUB.
- If it's true, that's means u grub stage1 image in sda's mbr
can't load stage2. So it's useless which update initrd.img. U can
bootup from LiveCD because ur LiveCD use stage2_eltorito or
syslinux(that's more commonly) to find vmlinuz & initrd.img. So
maybe that's what u wanna.
- — Command: install [--force-lba] [--stage2=os_stage2_file]
stage1_file [d]
dest_dev stage2_file [addr] [p] [config_file] [real_config_file]
In short, it will perform a full install presuming the Stage 2 or
Stage
1.510 is in its final install location.
In slightly more detail, it will load stage1_file,
validate that
it is a GRUB Stage 1 of the right version number, install in it a
blocklist for loading stage2_file as a Stage 2. If the
option
d is present, the Stage 1 will
always look for the actual
disk stage2_file was installed on, rather than using the
booting
drive. The Stage 2 will be loaded at address addr, which
must be
`0x8000' for a true Stage 2, and
`0x2000' for a Stage 1.5. If
addr is not present, GRUB will determine the address
automatically. It then writes the completed Stage 1 to the first block
of the device dest_dev. If the options p or
config_file are present, then it reads the first block of
stage2,
modifies it with the values of the partition stage2_file
was found
on (for p) or places the
string config_file into the area
telling the stage2 where to look for a configuration file at boot
time. Likewise, if real_config_file is present and
stage2_file is a Stage 1.5, then the Stage 2 config_file
is
patched with the configuration file name real_config_file.
This
command preserves the DOS BPB (and for hard disks, the partition table)
of the sector the Stage 1 is to be installed into.
- Caution3: You must specify the option --stage2 in the
grub shell, if you cannot unmount the filesystem where your stage2 file
resides. The argument should be the file name in your operating system.
- e2fs_stage1_5
- fat_stage1_5
- ffs_stage1_5
- jfs_stage1_5
- minix_stage1_5
- reiserfs_stage1_5
- vstafs_stage1_5
- xfs_stage1_5
- These are called Stage 1.5, because they serve as a
bridge
between stage1 and stage2, that is to say, Stage 1.5 is
loaded by Stage 1 and Stage 1.5 loads Stage 2. The difference between
stage1 and *_stage1_5 is that the former doesn't
understand any filesystem while the latter understands one filesystem
(e.g. e2fs_stage1_5 understands
ext2fs). So you can move the
Stage 2 image to another location safely, even after GRUB has been
installed.
While Stage 2 cannot generally be embedded in a fixed area as
the size
is so large, Stage 1.5 can be installed into the area right after an
MBR,
or the boot loader area of a ReiserFS or a FFS.
In ur problem, maybe u can try this in grub shell.
setup --stage2=/boot/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5
(hd0)
install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0)
/boot/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5
Remember return 2 me if that's really work, because I'm not sure in
this.
Shell.E.Xu
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