Jacques Montier wrote:
Le 13/01/2011 10:59, Dale a écrit :
Jacques Montier wrote:
What i did this morning :
- boot from a sysrescuecd cdrom.
I have 4 partitions for boot, /, usr and home, so :
- mount /dev/sda6 /mnt/gentoo
- mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/gentoo/boot
- mount /dev/sda7 /mnt/gentoo/usr
- mount /dev/sda8 /mnt/gentoo/home
- mount -t proc proc /mnt/gentoo/proc
- mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev
- cd /mnt/gentoo
- chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
- emerge grub
So grub-0.97-r10 is installed, but grub can't create grub directory
beause of read-only boot partition...
I tried
- export DONT_MOUNT_BOOT
- emerge grub
But no success...
--
Jacques
Try typing in mount with no options and see what it says. Does it say
it is mounted (rw) or (ro)? Does the file system match what you
formatted it with?
Dale
:-) :-)
It's strange.
When i mount the boot partition /dev/sda3, this one is (rw) ; i make
test directory with success.
As soon as i run emerge grub, the boot partition become (ro) and can't
create directory ; i can't make test directory anymore.
So i tried something very dirty ...
I unmounted the boot partition, so the boot directory in / is empty.
I emerge grub with success and get the grub directory i could backup.
I mount the boot partition et copy the grub directory into /boot.
I edit the grub.conf and it works ; Gentoo's booting...
It works but i don't like the process at all...
It's the first time i encount such a problem about grub.
--
Jacques
I'm glad you got it working but something is not right somewhere. I
would try to emerge grub, install and all that again to make sure
everything is stable. Also, when you are booted into Gentoo, not the
CD, type in the mount command and see if it shows it is mounted
properly. Sort of give things a good testing. I would hate for this to
come back and bite you later on.
I'm not sure if it is grub or not but something is fishy somewhere.
Grub has been stable for a long time.
Dale
:-) :-)
