John P. Burkett wrote: > On a x86 machine I did "emerge -D -uav world" and got a response that > read in part as follows: > * Messages for package sys-boot/grub-0.97-r9: > * > * To avoid automounting and autoinstalling with /boot, > * just export the DONT_MOUNT_BOOT variable. > * > * *** IMPORTANT NOTE: you must run grub and install > * the new version's stage1 to your MBR. Until you do, > * stage1 and stage2 will still be the old version, but > * later stages will be the new version, which could > * cause problems such as an unbootable system. > * This means you must use either grub-install or perform > * root/setup manually! For more help, see the handbook: > * > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=10#grub-install-auto > * To interactively install grub files to another device such as a USB > * stick, just run the following and specify the directory as prompted: > * emerge --config =grub-0.97-r9 > * Alternately, you can export GRUB_ALT_INSTALLDIR=/path/to/use to tell > * grub where to install in a non-interactive way. > > After reading > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=10#grub-install-auto > I did "grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab". That seems to have > produced the needed /etc/mtab file. Now I'm confused by the part of the > manual with code listings 2.6 and > 2.7 and the associated commentary. > The manual suggests doing "grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sda" > but later says "If your system does not have any floppy drives, add the > --no-floppy option to the above command to prevent grub from probing the > (non-existing) floppy drives." My machine has a floppy drive. Should I > omit the --no-floppy option and just do "grub-install /dev/sda" ? > > -John > > >
I got something similar once before. All I did was run grub, then while inside grub, run root and setup. Basically like I did when i first installed Linux. It has worked so far so I guess that was all that it needed was to update the files in /boot for when it first loads after the BIOS. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-)
