Re: grub and xfs in etch
Thank you!
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 12:20 +0100, Jörg Becker wrote:
> 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 i
Thank you!
nstall 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.
--
Marcelo Chiapparini
DFT-IF/UERJ
chiappa@uerj.br
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