Re: grub and xfs in etch
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 19:32, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 12:05 +0100, Jörg Becker wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 17. January 2007 19:34, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > does grub 0.97-20, shipped with etch, work well in a boot partition
> > > with a xfs filesystem?
> >
> > Works fine on my machine. But I had to install it the grub way because
> > grub-install didn't work. My configuration: \boot is a xfs partition the
> > rest of the hard disk is managed via lvm.
>
> Jörg,
>
> thank you for the answer. How do you install grub in the grub way? I am
> planning to do a fresh install of etch in a new computer, with a xfs
> filesystem. So, how should I install grub in this case?
>
> thanks in advance
>
> Marcelo
Try grub-install. If it works its the easiest way. Unfortunately on my machine
grub-install never returned. Therefore I've installed GRUB like described
here:
Konqueror: info:/grub/Installing%20GRUB%20natively
or "info grub" chapter installing GRUB natively
as superuser:
#grub
grub> root(hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> quit
#update-grub
On my machine this created a /boot/boot/grub directory with the necessary
files. I think the /boot/boot is because /boot resides in its own partition.
I'm sure there is a parameter to tell GRUB that /boot is not a subdir of /
but a partition.
Ignoring the warning of the install (a December 2006 version), I also tried to
install GRUB in the installation process. But this ends with a non bootable
machine.
Joerg
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