Hi Larry, Il giorno lun, 24/01/2011 alle 17.07 -0500, Larry Irwin ha scritto: [...] > A) Grub fails to install boot block. > Message: ...the file boot grub stage1 not read correctly > which has been seen in older posts, but not necessarily in this context. > grub works without LVM using manual fixed partitioning... > But, even if you use fixed partitioning, then the next issue appears... > > B) Resulting boot device reference is wrong. > During installation, the entire disk is referenced as "sdc", which, when > the system is rebooted will be seen as "sda". > But, grub's device map and the system's fstab all refer to sdc, which no > longer exists. > Even when grub does install in the boot sector properly, manual booting > via grub is required since the device references are inaccurate after > the boot image and USB are no longer "ahead" of the boot device.
The only solution you have is to use UUID for specifing all volumes in /etc/fstab and grub configuration file. I run a lot of dell machines with this kind of problems, and I switched to UUID and grub-pc solving the problem. Bye, Giuseppe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1296188984.7265.7.camel@scarafaggio
