Am Dienstag, den 21.07.2009, 10:27 -0400 schrieb BandiPat: > Hi devs, > I just received this email on our Zenwalk list, complaining about a > Grub2 failure to install with the latest Alpha release of the new > Zenwalk. As you may know, Zenwalk is planning to be one of the first > distributions to release with Grub2 as it's primary bootloader, so we > are trying to get all the bugs worked out prior to final release.
Ubuntu karmic will use it as default bootloader too. > I > will include the user's email, plus his picture of the error. At this > point I'm not sure it is a Grub2 error, but I'm hoping maybe you can at > least give me some input. I believe the version is svn2383, so if it > was a problem, it may be fixed by the latest I just built, svn2430? I'm > trying to get more details, but thought I should follow up with you guys > as well. Here's the message and pic. > > TIA > Pat The picture clearly shows that he has now to use --force option if he really wants blocklists. > ------------------ > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: 6.2 alpha: grub install failure > Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:31:22 +0100 > From: M.S.Colclough <m.s.colclo...@bham.ac.uk> > Reply-To: zenwalk-...@lists.zenwalk.org > To: zenwalk-...@lists.zenwalk.org > > > > I installed 6.2 alpha on a pc that had 6.0 and lilo (no previous install > problems). All defaults, Autopartition, followed by grub to MBR. > "Something went wrong" said the message. Indeed it has: installation > looks OK, but unbootable (a broken lilo message: L 99). sg2conf.log > mutters about no post-mbr gap (see attached screenshot). > > Somebody on the archlinux forums suggests "parted 1 set bios_grub on". > I didn't try this because parted on the install disk is broken (no > libparted) > > Mark > > -------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel -- Felix Zielcke _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
