Grub2 problem?

Grub2 problem?

[BandiPat]

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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.  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
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  -------- 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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Re: Grub2 problem?

[Felix Zielcke]

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
> 
> --------------------
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Grub-devel mailing list
> Grub-devel@gnu.org
> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel


-- 
Felix Zielcke

Re: Grub2 problem?

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 04:42:33PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> 
> The picture clearly shows that he has now to use --force option if he
> really wants blocklists.

I wonder why did that person get this error.  The message quoted below
suggests this is a GPT, but the error message says MSDOS-style label.

Perhaps this is an hybrid label?  GRUB should recognize this as GPT, but
it seems that it recognizes it as MSDOS-style instead.


> > 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
> > 
> > --------------------
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > 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
> 

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