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From: Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Installing grub onto a system with XFS root fs
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:28:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200712171428.51831.Martin@lichtvoll.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071217004945.GA13335@jdc.jasonjgw.net>


Hello Jason,

Am Montag 17 Dezember 2007 schrieb Jason White:
> I am trying to install Grub onto a system with a single XFS partition
> serving as both / and /boot.
>
> Distribution: Debian Unstable (Sid).
> Architecture: x86_64
>
> When I run grub-install I get:
> Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
> Due to a bug in xfs_freeze, the following command might produce a
> segmentation fault when /boot/grub is not in an XFS filesystem. This
> error is harmless and can be ignored.
>
> At this point the install script hangs and the only way to recover is
> to reboot the machine (with a hard reset). Needless to say, Grub isn't
> installed.
>
> Any suggestions?

Using grub shell manually always worked for me:

- grub
- find /boot/grub/menu.lst
- root <result from above command>
- setup <place to install too> for example (hd0,0) for first harddisks MBR

Remember to copy over the contents of /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc to /boot 
before you do a manual installation.

Ciao,
-- 
Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA  B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-17 13:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-17  0:49 Installing grub onto a system with XFS root fs Jason White
2007-12-17  1:07 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-12-17  1:46   ` Jason White
2007-12-17  3:12     ` Eric Sandeen
2007-12-17 13:28 ` Martin Steigerwald [this message]
2007-12-17 23:04   ` Jason White
2007-12-18  0:35     ` David Chinner
2007-12-18 22:03       ` Martin Steigerwald

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