On Tuesday 23 January 2007 19:32, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 12:05 +0100, Jörg Becker wrote: > > On Wednesday, 17. January 2007 19:34, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > > > does grub 0.97-20, shipped with etch, work well in a boot partition > > > with a xfs filesystem? > > > > Works fine on my machine. But I had to install it the grub way because > > grub-install didn't work. My configuration: \boot is a xfs partition the > > rest of the hard disk is managed via lvm. > > Jörg, > > thank you for the answer. How do you install grub in the grub way? I am > planning to do a fresh install of etch in a new computer, with a xfs > filesystem. So, how should I install grub in this case? > > thanks in advance > > Marcelo
Try grub-install. If it works its the easiest way. Unfortunately on my machine grub-install never returned. Therefore I've installed GRUB like described here: Konqueror: info:/grub/Installing%20GRUB%20natively or "info grub" chapter installing GRUB natively as superuser: #grub grub> root(hd0,0) grub> setup (hd0) grub> quit #update-grub On my machine this created a /boot/boot/grub directory with the necessary files. I think the /boot/boot is because /boot resides in its own partition. I'm sure there is a parameter to tell GRUB that /boot is not a subdir of / but a partition. Ignoring the warning of the install (a December 2006 version), I also tried to install GRUB in the installation process. But this ends with a non bootable machine. Joerg
