grub-0.90-r7 (that's the current stable version in gentoo, presumably also present in most current livecd's and stages) resulted in an error 17 (see http://www.gnu.org/manual/grub-0.92/html_node/Stage2-errors.html) when i tried to install grub to the mbr (aka "setup (hd0)"). this means grub failed to install resulting in an "not" bootable gentoo. i do not know the reason for grub throwing this error, might have to do with me having reiserfs on /boot (though i correctly mounted it using the -o notail option). but this does not sound reasonable to me (why should grub care for the fs when installing to the mbr?) however, there is no such error when i tried the same using the latest grub- 0.92-r1 (which works fine for me). thus i suppose it's a bug in grub 0.90 or rather, a bug in conjunction with one of the patches applied to it (as i did not find any information regarding such a bug in both grub's bugzilla and changelog). another work-around might be to use lilo (would have been my next step, not tested yet though) i use a via eden samuel 2 cpu board (lex barebone) and stage3-i586_k6.3- 1.4_rc1.tar.bz2 (which appears to be fine besides this)
could you please paste the complete action you've done ?
well, exactly as described in the gentoo installation manual. i won't repeat each single step here... abbreveated, that's what i got: /dev/hdc1 /boot reiserfs /dev/hdc2 extended partition /dev/hdc5 swap /dev/hdc6 / reiserfs correct partition types etc. mounted hdc6 to /mnt/gentoo, mounted -o notail hdc1 to /mnt/gentoo/boot, chroot etc. then grub root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) quit error appeared after setup (hd0). same error no matter how i tried to install grub (recreated the fs, umounted, remounted etc. etc.). but: no such error with the newer grub. that's why i suppose it's a grub bug. actually, i am a bit surprised about grub seeing hdc as hd0. i thought it'd be hd2. anyway.
I'm hearing no negativity about 0.92-r1 -- time for unmasking soon maybe?
first error hdc1 reiser for booting compatiblity use ext2 whats on hda and hdb ? which hardware (ide controller and so on) do you use ?
> first error hdc1 reiser that's not an error. it's perfectly ok as long as the partition is at least 100 mb (iirc), mounted with -o notail and stuff. do not forget reiserfs is in the stock kernel for a while now and appears to be rock-solid (can confirm this from my own experience; i have been using reiserfs for a long time already). > for booting compatiblity use ext2 i have my reasons for choosing reiserfs instead of ext2 as boot partition fs for this barebone. no need to go into details here. besides, i do not have any troubles with my boot partition (works fine everything), i had troubles with grub-0.90 (solved with 0.92 :) > whats on hda and hdb ? hda was the temporarily attached dvd drive of my workstation (see http://www.icu.unizh.ch/~mettlerd/news/ if you're looking for some blurry pics ;). that's where i installed gentoo from. hdb is void ;) > which hardware (ide controller and so on) do you use ? it's a via m/b with a via eden samuel 2 533 mhz cpu (lex barebone CV860A-3R53 on http://www.lex.com.tw/index1.htm). not very common but a fine thing nonetheless :) ide controller: Bus 0, device 7, function 1: IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 6). Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xc000 [0xc00f]. haven't heard anything bad about it yet. merry x-mas! :)
oh well, and greets from konqueror of course ;) once again (sorry): > first error hdc1 reiser that's not an error. it's perfectly ok as long as the partition is at least 100 mb (iirc), mounted with -o notail and stuff. do not forget reiserfs is in the stock kernel for a while now and appears to be rock-solid (can confirm this from my own experience; i have been using reiserfs for a long time already). > for booting compatiblity use ext2 i have my reasons for choosing reiserfs instead of ext2 as boot partition fs for this barebone. no need to go into details here. besides, i do not have any troubles with my boot partition (works fine everything), i had troubles with grub-0.90 (solved with 0.92 :) > whats on hda and hdb ? hda was the temporarily attached dvd drive of my workstation (see http://www.icu.unizh.ch/~mettlerd/news/ if you're looking for some blurry pics ;). that's where i installed gentoo from. hdb is void ;) > which hardware (ide controller and so on) do you use ? it's a via m/b with a via eden samuel 2 533 mhz cpu (lex barebone CV860A-3R53 on http://www.lex.com.tw/index1.htm). not very common but a fine thing nonetheless :) ide controller: Bus 0, device 7, function 1: IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 6). Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xc000 [0xc00f]. haven't heard anything bad about it yet. merry x-mas! :)
0.92 is now stable in portage tree is this still a issue or can we close this ?
imho it can be closed as this update fixes the major pain of grub 0.90. we should just keep in mind that regarding grub, "stable" obviously not always means "stable". thus i'd suggest a rather conservative updating strategy, once a nicely working, well-tested version of grub is found. fiddling around with buggy bootloaders is pretty annoying for most people (as it eventually can be a blocker during installation already). (for reference: the problem seems to have been reported to grub's bug tracker quite a while ago: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/? func=detailbug&bug_id=1427&group_id=68. same conclusion as here: updating grub solves the problem.)
ok.
