On 8/6/2015 5:11 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Bowie Bailey Bowie_Bailey@buc.com wrote:
Ok. I'll give that a try tomorrow. Just a couple of questions.
install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /grub/stage1 d (hd0,1) /grub/stage2 p (hd0,1)/grub/grub.conf
It looks like this mixes paths relative to root and relative to /boot. Did your test system have a separate /boot partition?
Yes.
The --stage2 argument is "os stage2 file" according to my man page. Should this be relative to root even with a separate /boot partition?
I think it's being treated as a directory because it's going to access this stage2 file.
Also, why are the exact same root and install commands run twice in the log you show? Is that just a duplicate, or does it need to be run twice for some reason?
I do not know. The whole thing is foreign to me. But both drives are bootable as hd0 (the only drive connected). So it makes sense that the configuration is treating this as an hd0 based installation of the bootloader to both drives. The part were the stage 1 and 2 are directed to separate drives must be the 'device (hd0) /dev/vdb' command. Again, I don't know why it isn't either 'device (hd0) (hd1)' or 'device /dev/vda /dev/vdb' but that's what the log sayeth.
I tried the grub commands you gave and still got the same results. I also have a copy of the SuperGrub disc, which is supposed to be able to fix grub problems. It can boot the drive, but it can't fix it. If nothing else, I guess I could just leave that disc in the drive and use it to boot the system.
I'm going to do a fresh install to the new drives and see if that works.