(This time with the correct subject.. I'm not used to going through webmail at work.. Maybe I should have registered my other email address :)
>Did you use GRUB 2 CVS? Yes. >> When I tried to boot against it, I saw the initial Grub welcome message, but it immediately gave an error message. I don't have the error message to show as I've rebuilt the machine with extra partitions this >> time. I can now try dedicating one for /boot and possibly one for grub itself (running the grub-install seemed to insist on one). > >Right, the reason for that is that the firmware can't load from ext2 (or whatever you use). So you need a HFS+ partition as /boot (assuming you use an apple). I'm still a little confused by this. In Gentoo at least, yaboot does not require a /boot partition, but it does require the apple bootstrap partition. This is created by using the 'b' command in mac-fdisk, which creates an 800k HFS partition. Once created, mkofboot is run to format the bootstrap partition and copy the yaboot files to it. This is the location where I put the grubof.modules and grub.cfg files. For grub to work, does this partition need to be larger and then mounted as /boot in Linux? Or do I need a separate /boot partition, but it must be an HFS partition? Can I see your /etc/fstab and partition map? It might be easier for me to just duplicate what you have. Once I get it working, I can figure out exactly what the requirements are. For what its worth, I'm setting this up on a MacMini with 256MB. Not sure if that should make a difference. I did try setting up separate /boot and /boot/grub partitions, but didn't think these needed to be HFS. I assumed that once grub was running from the bootstrap partition it was no longer neccessary to stay within HFS. >> Alternatively, is there a description of the layout of the grub2 code so I can follow the process myself to figure it out? I'm a developer, but I'm having some difficulty figuring out the organization as I poke around. Would the documentation for grub legacy help? Is there some general information floating around that I haven't found yet? > >I will write something for the wiki this evening or tomorrow, if nothing is there about the organisation of the code. Otherwise I'll point you to the >right documents. Have you looked into this yet? I was hoping to dig through the code before sending this email :) I feel like I'm doing something fundamentally wrong and it might be easier just following the logic.. Thanks, Jon _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
