From: Felix Zielcke <fzielcke@z-51.de>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Grub2 problem?
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:42:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1248187353.7790.1.camel@fz.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A65D044.7090905@earthlink.net>
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.colclough@bham.ac.uk>
> Reply-To: zenwalk-vip@lists.zenwalk.org
> To: zenwalk-vip@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
>
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Felix Zielcke
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-21 14:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-21 14:27 Grub2 problem? BandiPat
2009-07-21 14:42 ` Felix Zielcke [this message]
2009-07-22 17:54 ` Robert Millan
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