further information shown under "Steps to Reproduce" Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: livecd root # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on tmpfs 159936 74112 85824 47% / /newroot/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 619368 619368 0 100% /mnt/cdrom /dev/loop/0 71104 71104 0 100% /mnt/livecd /dev/hdc1 93307 23902 64588 28% /mnt/gentoo /dev/hda2 31722 13 30059 1% /mnt/gentoo/boot /dev/hdb1 2083468 1655128 322504 84% /mnt/gentoo/usr /dev/hdb2 1034276 151524 830212 16% /mnt/gentoo/opt /dev/hdc2 1035692 33108 949972 4% /mnt/gentoo/tmp /dev/hdc4 109321408 653576 103114564 1% /mnt/gentoo/home /dev/hdc5 2071384 152504 1813656 8% /mnt/gentoo/var /dev/hdc6 1035660 54584 928468 6% /mnt/gentoo/var/log /dev/hdc7 1035660 32844 950208 4% /mnt/gentoo/var/spool /dev/hdc8 806368 16432 748972 3% /mnt/gentoo/backup /dev/sda1 2063504 54480 1904204 3% /mnt/gentoo/var/db /dev/sdb1 1058648 32856 1025792 4% /mnt/gentoo/home/httpd -------------------------------------------------- livecd / # fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 428 MB, 428067840 bytes 15 heads, 62 sectors/track, 899 cylinders Units = cylinders of 930 * 512 = 476160 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 828 384989 83 Linux /dev/hda2 * 829 899 33015 83 Linux -------------------------------------------------- livecd / # emerge grub Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-boot/grub-0.94-r1 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) grub-0.94.tar.gz >>> md5 src_uri ;-) grub-0.94-splash.patch.bz2 >>> Unpacking source... [...] -------------------------------------------------- livecd / # ll /boot/ total 2125 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Sep 29 03:02 . drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 1024 Sep 17 23:07 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 661136 Sep 29 03:02 System.map-2.4.26-gentoo-r9 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24768 Sep 29 03:02 config-2.4.26-gentoo-r9 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Sep 29 02:58 grub -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1460780 Sep 29 03:01 kernel-2.4.26-gentoo-r9 drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Sep 29 02:51 lost+found ---------------------------------------------- livecd / # ll /boot/grub/ total 847 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Sep 29 03:05 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Sep 29 03:02 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11264 Sep 29 02:58 e2fs_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10256 Sep 29 02:58 fat_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9216 Sep 29 02:58 ffs_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 340 Sep 29 03:06 grub.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1495 Sep 29 02:58 grub.conf.sample -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11456 Sep 29 02:58 jfs_stage1_5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Sep 29 02:58 menu.lst -> grub.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9600 Sep 29 02:58 minix_stage1_5 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 196836 Sep 29 02:58 nbgrub -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 197860 Sep 29 02:58 pxegrub -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12864 Sep 29 02:58 reiserfs_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33856 Sep 29 02:58 splash.xpm.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Sep 29 02:58 stage1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 135148 Sep 29 02:58 stage2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 196900 Sep 29 02:58 stage2.netboot -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8896 Sep 29 02:58 vstafs_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12840 Sep 29 02:58 xfs_stage1_5 ---------------------------------------------- livecd / # cat /boot/grub/grub.conf # this entry should be booted usually: default 0 # timeout untill standard entry (above) is run timeout 5 # location of background image splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz # name of entry (!use kernel version!) title=Gentoo Linux 2.4.26-r9 # place of /boot root (hd0,1) # place of kernel image kernel (hd0,1)/kernel-2.4.26-gentoo-r9 root=/dev/hdc1 vga=789 ---------------------------------------------- livecd / # cp /proc/mounts /etc/mtab cp: overwrite `/etc/mtab'? y livecd / # cd /boot && ln -s . boot livecd boot # ll total 2125 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Sep 29 03:12 . drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 1024 Sep 17 23:07 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 661136 Sep 29 03:02 System.map-2.4.26-gentoo-r9 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Sep 29 03:12 boot -> . -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24768 Sep 29 03:02 config-2.4.26-gentoo-r9 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Sep 29 03:05 grub -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1460780 Sep 29 03:01 kernel-2.4.26-gentoo-r9 drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Sep 29 02:51 lost+found ---------------------------------------------- livecd boot # grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/hda Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. Installation finished. No error reported. This is the contents of the device map /boot/boot/grub/device.map. Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect, fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'. (fd0) /dev/fd0 (hd0) /dev/hda (hd1) /dev/hdb (hd2) /dev/hdc (hd3) /dev/sda (hd4) /dev/sdb ===REBOOT===> GRUB Loading stage1.5. GRUB loading, please wait... Error 17 (system halts but CRTL-ALT-DEL possible) ===NEXT TRY: MANUAL INSTALL===> GNU GRUB version 0.94 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename. ] grub> root (hd0,1) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 grub> find /boot/kernel-2.4.26-gentoo-r9 (hd0,1) grub> setup (hd0) Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 22 sectors are embedded. succeeded Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+22 p (hd0,1)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded Done. grub> setup (hd0,1) Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,1)"... failed (this is not fatal) Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,1)"... failed (this is not fatal) Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0,1) /boot/grub/stage2 p /boot/grub/menu.lst "... succeeded Done. grub> ===REBOOT=============================> GRUB Loading stage1.5. GRUB loading, please wait... Error 17 (system halts but CRTL-ALT-DEL possible) Expected Results: grub should boot the kernel workaround: Works for me if I use /dev/hda1 as /boot and /dev/hda2 as SWAP. Please mention that it's NOT posible to make grub run in an OTHER partition than the first one even if that (other) partition is bootable.
Using "cd /boot && ln -s . boot" as mentioned on http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-faq.html#q11 doesn't help as well. I didn't expect it to, because hda2 was ext2 and grub-online-docs say: > 17 : Cannot mount selected partition > This error is returned if the partition requested exists, but the _filesystem type_cannot_be_recognized_ by GRUB. see http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Stage2%20errors
I can't reproduce this; my VMWare installation allows grub on /dev/hda2 just fine. There are lots of users who have their boot partition elsewhere than (hd0,0). Just skim through the forums. You might want to put this on http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=grub if you want to persue.
thx for checking well, whatever: I use (hd0,0) now ...
