Bug 14530 – GRUB setup statement needs to be expanded w/the boot partition

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: [OLD] Docs-user

[Description toon 2003-01-25 06:36:03 UTC]

Hi,

Now that the gentoo installation process involves
creating a _SEPARATE_ boot partition, the GRUB setup
statement in the installation manual needs to be extended.

Currently the manual reads: "setup (hd0)"
With a separate boot partition this results in an error 15
(File not found) on the stage1 file.

It should read: "setup (hd0) (hd0,4)"
where the second parameter identifies the boot partition.

It took me a while to figure this out.  ;-)
Regards,
Toon.

[Comment 1 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2003-01-26 23:30:35 UTC]

I have not had this problem. IIRC, the setup(hd0) places the bootloader on the
MBR, and GRUB uses the first partition on the disk

//zhen

[Comment 2 toon 2003-01-27 02:43:03 UTC]

Hi,

You wrote: "...places the boot loader in MBR, and
GRUB uses the first partition on the disk."
But who says that I used the first partition
as the boot partition? I chose to use an extended
partition (number 5, number 4 for GRUB).
In this setup it only worked after I added
the second parameter to the setup statement.
I think there is nothing wrong with my setup.
The first partition could already be occupied
with this other OS.  ;-)

[Comment 3 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2003-02-09 18:30:20 UTC]

fixed, and thanks for the update.