hello,
the last 3 times I installed C5, the MBR was unchanged and nothing was written into /boot/grub except splash.xbm.gz
there were no stage* files, nor a menu.lst I know how to fix that.
Would I have better luck using a partition mounted as /boot? Anyone succeded with Grub that way? I prefer not having to do surgery to get C5 to boot :)
-- Mark
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mark pryor wrote:
hello,
the last 3 times I installed C5, the MBR was unchanged and nothing was written into /boot/grub except splash.xbm.gz
there were no stage* files, nor a menu.lst I know how to fix that.
Would I have better luck using a partition mounted as /boot? Anyone succeded with Grub that way? I prefer not having to do surgery to get C5 to boot :)
-- Mark
New Packages for C5
dkms-et131x-1.2.2-el5.noarch.rpm (gigabit ethernet driver) http://www.tlviewer.org/c5repo/web/agere
kchm-el5 (CHM client with io-slave) http://www.tlviewer.org/c5repo/kde/
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I have had no issues with CentOS 5 on my system which is a hodgepodge of PATA, Serial ATA, SAS and Ultra 320 SCSI drives. It's worked on all of them.
Do you have multiple disk ? Can you search on all your disk for grub's files ?
On 9/25/07, mark pryor tlviewer@yahoo.com wrote:
hello,
the last 3 times I installed C5, the MBR was unchanged and nothing was written into /boot/grub except splash.xbm.gz
there were no stage* files, nor a menu.lst I know how to fix that.
Would I have better luck using a partition mounted as /boot? Anyone succeded with Grub that way? I prefer not having to do surgery to get C5 to boot :)
-- Mark
New Packages for C5
dkms-et131x-1.2.2-el5.noarch.rpm (gigabit ethernet driver) http://www.tlviewer.org/c5repo/web/agere
kchm-el5 (CHM client with io-slave) http://www.tlviewer.org/c5repo/kde/
Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search.
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On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 14:13 +0200, Alain Spineux wrote:
Do you have multiple disk ? Can you search on all your disk for grub's files ?
On 9/25/07, mark pryor tlviewer@yahoo.com wrote:
hello,
the last 3 times I installed C5, the MBR was unchanged and nothing was written into /boot/grub except splash.xbm.gz
there were no stage* files, nor a menu.lst I know how to fix that.
Would I have better luck using a partition mounted as /boot? Anyone succeded with Grub that way? I prefer not having to do surgery to get C5 to boot :)
I remember having the nearly-empty /boot/grub directory before but memory fails me as to the exact circumstances.
Have installed C5 with/without a /boot partition, but having a /boot seems to be the safer bet. If / is LVM a /boot is required as GRUB doesn't seem to be able to deal with LVM - thus the "standard" configuration one gets with a default install/partitioning. (Following the link within the link below may bring back memories of some very extended threads for some on the list. :-)
http://www.silug.org/lists/silug-discuss/200412/msg00104.html
Phil
On 9/25/07, Phil Schaffner Philip.R.Schaffner@nasa.gov wrote:
Have installed C5 with/without a /boot partition, but having a /boot seems to be the safer bet. If / is LVM a /boot is required as GRUB doesn't seem to be able to deal with LVM
My one experience with installing CentOS 5 with / on a USB drive is that I had to put /boot on the "regular" IDE drive. That might be because I wanted to dual-boot to Windows XP, though.
on 9/24/2007 10:29 PM mark pryor spake the following:
hello,
the last 3 times I installed C5, the MBR was unchanged and nothing was written into /boot/grub except splash.xbm.gz
there were no stage* files, nor a menu.lst I know how to fix that.
Would I have better luck using a partition mounted as /boot? Anyone succeded with Grub that way? I prefer not having to do surgery to get C5 to boot :)
-- Mark
I always use a small /boot partition, but I have been in Linux long enough (mid 90's) that nothing used to boot on a partition over 1024 cylinders, not grub, not lilo. Once you find something that works, you tend to keep using it. Call me old and stale! ;-P
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