From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1F1sxd-0007Fb-C9 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:17:53 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F1sxa-0007CG-Jc for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:17:51 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F1sxY-00079c-FF for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:17:49 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F1sxY-00079F-7F for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:17:48 -0500 Received: from [194.109.24.36] (helo=smtp-vbr16.xs4all.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F1sv0-0000B7-DE for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:15:10 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by smtp-vbr16.xs4all.nl (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k0PMErY6025532 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 23:14:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mgerards@xs4all.nl) Mail-Copies-To: mgerards@xs4all.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: From: Marco Gerards Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 23:14:55 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Poe Chen's message of "Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:48:06 -0500") Message-ID: <87y814x8dc.fsf@xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Subject: Re: Problem installing GRUB2 on a 2.1TB system 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, 25 Jan 2006 22:17:51 -0000 Poe Chen writes: > I'm the same guy who has successfully floppy boot GRUB2 on a 2.1TB system. > =) > > Here are the problems that I've encountered to get GRUB2 installed onto my > system running CentOS 4.2 with latest updates. > > -grub-probefs can't detect the file system on my server. > > Here are the system info: > > [root@colossus ~]# df -k > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda2 4032124 2810480 1016816 74% / > /dev/sda1 101086 11576 84291 13% /boot > none 516768 0 516768 0% /dev/shm > /dev/sda4 2300710112 1547872 2182292912 1% /home > > And here is the result: > > [root@colossus ~]# grub-probefs -v /dev/sda > grub-probefs: info: changing current directory to /dev > grub-probefs: info: changing current directory to cpu > grub-probefs: info: changing current directory to mapper > grub-probefs: info: changing current directory to input > grub-probefs: info: changing current directory to net > grub-probefs: info: changing current directory to shm > grub-probefs: info: changing current directory to pts > cannot find a GRUB device for /dev/sda. What kind of filesystem do you use? Can you show the output of `mount'? Please be *very* careful with installing on GPT. The only way to use GRUB with GPT is by using a floppy. This is because it does not have a bootsector. The intended way of booting such system is by using EFI. Unfortunately I don't have such system available and GRUB 2 is not changed so it can deal with EFI. Also see my other email regarding this issue: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2005-11/msg00163.html Any ideas and suggestions regarding this problem are welcome. I expect more people will run into this problem. Thanks, Marco