Re: MBR Confusion SOLVED

2007-04-07 Thread Matt Miller
> > I've attached an external hard drive to my etch AMD64 box, booted my > > AMD64 box into the debian installer, and installed a fresh i386 etch > > onto the external drive. > > > > Now I can't boot my box without the external drive attached, because > > grub complains with "error 21." This is fi

Re: MBR Confusion?

2007-04-07 Thread Matt Miller
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo chroot /mnt/debinst /bin/bash > > chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': Exec format error > > I got into this thread late... but this is the error that you get when > the chrooted disk is not mounted with -o exec That doesn't seem to explain my problem: [EMAIL PR

Re: MBR Confusion?

2007-04-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Matt Miller wrote: I've attached an external hard drive to my etch AMD64 box, booted my AMD64 box into the debian installer, and installed a fresh i386 etch onto the external drive. Now I can't boot my box without the external drive attached, because grub complains with "error 21." So boot into

Re: MBR Confusion?

2007-04-07 Thread Matt Miller
> > I've attached an external hard drive to my etch AMD64 box, booted my > > AMD64 box into the debian installer, and installed a fresh i386 etch > > onto the external drive. > > > > Now I can't boot my box without the external drive attached > > you're done. > > It looks like the MBR of your Etch

Re: MBR Confusion?

2007-04-07 Thread Matt Miller
> > I've attached an external hard drive to my etch AMD64 box, booted > > my AMD64 box into the debian installer, and installed a fresh i386 > > etch onto the external drive. > > > > Now I can't boot my box without the external drive attached, > > because grub complains with "error 21." > > So boot

Re: MBR Confusion? (was: Building i386 Disk on AMD64 -- chroot Fails: Exec format error)

2007-04-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 01:30:57 +0200, Matt Miller wrote: > > I've attached an external hard drive to my etch AMD64 box, booted my > > AMD64 box into the debian installer, and installed a fresh i386 etch > > onto the external drive. > > Now I can't boot my box without the external drive attached,

Re: MBR Confusion?

2007-04-07 Thread Wackojacko
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 01:30:57 +0200, Matt Miller wrote: I've attached an external hard drive to my etch AMD64 box, booted my AMD64 box into the debian installer, and installed a fresh i386 etch onto the external drive. Now I can't boot my box without the external drive

Re: MBR Confusion

2007-04-06 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 01:30:57AM +0200, Matt Miller wrote: > > I've attached an external hard drive to my etch AMD64 box, booted my > > AMD64 box into the debian installer, and installed a fresh i386 etch > > onto the external drive. > > Now I can't boot my box without the external drive attache

Re: MBR Confusion? (was: Building i386 Disk on AMD64 -- chroot Fails: Exec format error)

2007-04-06 Thread Matt Miller
> I've attached an external hard drive to my etch AMD64 box, booted my > AMD64 box into the debian installer, and installed a fresh i386 etch > onto the external drive. Now I can't boot my box without the external drive attached, because grub complains with "error 21." I'm thinking that when the