after updating to the new grub snapshot from a system with no menu.lst symlink (x86 ~~> ~x86 first bootstrapping with x86 then setting APPECPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" and running emerge -uD world completing a full system update) dependant grub install; grub will not run install with a menu.lst path to the grub menu and subsequently fail to boot after reinstalling the mbr sectors. So i installed grub's mbr sectors with the install command again manually with menu.lst as the target that worked. Basically my submission is that older grub versions in x86 arent updating properly. A new ~x86 bootstrapped system runs setup (hd0) and it installs a menu.lst target howwver the latter will not. i have a system i just built last night will not boot same related problem the new shapshot updates from 0.94 or older and grub still runs install with the grub.conf as the target. I've attempted to boot from the livecd and re-make the symlinks to attempt to satisfy the problem but it did not resolve the issue. also re-emerging grub did not solve the issue in any current x86 or ~x86 version in the tree. After consulting kloheri on oct. 09th it was decided that filing a bug would be the wisest course of action. My apaologies for not filing the bug sooner... I've been extremely busy with work. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install a fresh x86 keyworded gentoo install from a 2004.2 x86 stage1 2. install grub as usual completing the installation process with gentoo-dev-sources 3. re-keyword the installation to ~x86 unmasking 4. update to the unstable branch of the tree. 5. from grub shell re-install the boot sectors and observe the output of the install command Actual Results: one system failed to boot entirely on one system with either grub conf install target and would only boot on another after reinstalling the boot sector manually from grub shell with /grub/menu.lst as the boot sector's grub menu target Expected Results: grub should run install with /grub/menu.lst for menu.lst symlink dependant grub versions both systems are currently unavailable for emerge info. I will repost laster today hopefully with the information.
emerge info from system #1 - first occurance of the bug ------------------------------------------------------- itunes ~ # emerge info Portage 2.0.51_rc7 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.4.2, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6. 8-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r6 i686 Pentium III (Katmai) Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.92.0.2 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/glftpd/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/con fig /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://adelie.polymtl.ca/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo http://ge ntoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://gentoo.eliteitminds.com" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="S3TC X X509 aac acl acpi activefilter adns aim alsa apache2 apm arts audiof ile avantgo avi bcmath bdf berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzlib cap cddb cdi nstall cdparanoia cdrom cgi chroot cjk client cpdflib crypt ctype cups curl curl wrappers dba dio divx4linux djbfft dnd droproot dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread edl emac s emacs-w3 encode erandom esd exif ext-png ext-zlib extensions f77 faac faad fam fastcgi fbcon ffmpeg flac flash fluidsynth fmod foomaticdb foreign-package fore ign-sysvinit freetds freetype freewnn ftp gb gcj gcl gd gdbm geoip gif gimp gimp print ginac glade glgd glut gmp gmtfull gnome gnomedb gnuplot gpm gps gs gsl gst reamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hardenedphp hbci hdf iconv icq ide idl ieee1394 image im agemagick imap imlib imlib2 innodb ipv6 irda irmc j2ee jabber java javacomm java doc javamail javascript jbig jboss jce jms jmx joystick jp2 jpeg jpeg2k jta juni t jython kadu-voice kakasi kde kerberos krb4 lcd lcms leim libdsk libg++ libgd l ibgda libwww live lua lufsusermount lzo lzw lzw-tiff m17n-lib mad maildir matros ka mbox mcal mdb memlimit mhash migemo mikmod mixer mldonkeypango mmap mmx mmx2 mng motif mozcalendar mozdomi mozp3p mozsvg mozxmlterm mpeg mpeg4 mpi mplayer ms n mssql mule music mythtv nagios-dns nagios-ntp nagios-ping nagios-ssh native nc urses net network nls nptl ntlm nvidia nviz oav objc ocaml odbc offensive ofx og gvorbis openal opengl opie oscar oss pam parse-clocks pcap pcntl pda pdflib perl pg-hier pg-intdatetime pg-vacuumdelay php pic plotutils png portaudio posix ppd s print psyco pthreads python qt quicktime quotes readline rhino rogue rplay rtc samba sasl sdl servlet-2.3 servlet-2.4 session shaper shared sharedmem sheep si lc simplexml skk slang slp smime sndfile snmp sockets socks5 softquota sox speex spell sse sse2 ssl stencil-buffer stroke svg svga szip t1lib tcpd tga theora ti dy tiff transcode truetype unicode usagi usb v4l v4l2 videos wifi wmf wxwin wxwi ndows x86 xatrix xchatdccserver xchattext xemacs xgetdefault xine xml xml2 xmlrp c xmms xosd xprint xrandr xsl xv xvid yahoo yv12 zlib"
Sorry, I'm not quite sure what the issue is here. I certainly can't reproduce it on my Athlon 64. What happens if you run the "grub-install" command like so: grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/hda Obviously replace /dev/hda with whatever your boot drive is, and make sure your boot partition is mounted. Also, make sure that you check /boot/grub/grub.conf afterwards. If this issue persists, please report back.
