From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KTKAH-0000bA-2i for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:29:41 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KTKAF-0000al-IT for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:29:39 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KTKAD-0000aO-Dn for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:29:38 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35114 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KTKAD-0000aJ-7P for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:29:37 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:43543) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KTKAC-0002bx-EN for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:29:37 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KTK1x-00067m-NG; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:21:06 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KTK8v-0003TR-AU; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:28:17 +0200 Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:28:17 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080813172817.GA13237@thorin> References: <48A30377.2060707@gleim.com> <20080813164439.GA3252@thorin> <48A3140E.8020606@gleim.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48A3140E.8020606@gleim.com> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Cc: 494589@bugs.debian.org Subject: Re: grub-setup fails with "error message = file not found" X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:29:39 -0000 On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 01:04:14PM -0400, Edward Allcutt wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > >On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 11:53:27AM -0400, Edward Allcutt wrote: > >>[1] http://dev.teamgleim.com/~emallcut/grub2/grub-setup.log > > > >>grub-setup: info: will leave the core image on the filesystem > > > >The blocklist approach should still work, but it's not recommended. > I was actually unaware that grub2 was using a blocklist. I thought it > always embedded the core image. It embeds core.img whenever possible, which on GPT depends on whether you have a dedicated partition for BIOS boot or not. > >I suggest you allow GRUB to embed core.img instead by adding a BIOS boot > >partitition using Parted. We still need to trace down the problem with > >blocklists, but this will tell us whether the problem is related to this > >or something else. > I set the "boot" flag for /dev/sda1 using parted. I hope this is what > you meant. grub-setup still fails with the same error and it still > mentions "will leave the core image on the filesystem". The "boot" flag on GPT means "EFI system partition" (this is admittedly confusing). There's a flag for bios boot, but only in recent versions of Parted. But of course, I wouldn't do that to your existing sda1 unless you want it to be wiped with GRUB code. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."