Re: weired problem around grub2
Hello,
Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 06:35:50 +0100, Geronimo wrote:
>
> (...)
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> > The point is - the new system should be deleted - I want to install
> > windows to that partition. So I need to install grub2 on my restored
> > root partition. But whatever I try - grub will not work with that
> > partition.
>
> (...)
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> Maybe you can look into Rescatux (SuperGrubDisk) and try to install GRUB2
> from there. At least with GRUB Legacy, SGD always worked fine for me.
Thank you for that hint.
I tried that CD, but the result did not differ from my manual tries.
The point is, I have an external SATA-controller and disks change order too
much times. That means, I don't have reliable device order.
So I put a label on each vital partition and mount them by using the label in
fstab. Works fine so far.
What definitely does not work, is grub recognizing certain disk/partition.
Although theres a device.map (with right identifiers for each drive), grub seem
to not use it at all. Otherwise I don't understand current behaviour:
Boot-drive is the first drive connected to internal controller (MB). The
external controller has 3 drives connected, which means, boot-drive changes
between sda and sdd.
Boot-drive is configured to be the first drive (at BIOS bootdrive order).
When I use the new install-CD of debian stable and boot into rescue-64bit, the
root partition appears in the list as sda1 - so I select to start a
commandline on that root partition.
In that session, a df shows, that the root-partition is now sdd1 - so two
different applications have different view to drives on the same run.
Extremely strange ;)
That boot-drive has 2 partitions, both containing debian squeeze with fstype
ext4. The first partition is a restored image, which originated from an ext3
installation, the second partition is a fresh installation using ext4.
Both installations are up-to-date.
When I start with the rescue-mode from install-CD and open a session to
partition2, I can install grub with "grub-install" and the system will be
bootable.
Doing the same with partition 1 - grub-install says "no errors" but on reboot
grub hangs and is not able to start the menue - so the system is unbootable.
I already tried to reinstall grub on partition 1 - but did not change
anything. Is the boot-directory expected to be located on certain block, or
what could be the reason of such a weired behavior?
kind regards
Gero
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