Thank you! On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 12:20 +0100, Jörg Becker wrote: > 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 i Thank you! nstall 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.
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