"Drake Donahue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted
[EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 03
Sep 2007 18:10:04 -0400:
> The Gparted LiveCD has switched from isolinux to grub sometime in the
> last few months. Perhaps a trend is starting?
Very cool! =8^)
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Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Disk boot order in grub
and Duncan opined:
Any insights into why nobody seems to be doing the LiveCD/DVD GRUB boot >
now, and w
"Drake Donahue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted
[EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 30
Aug 2007 16:28:37 -0400:
> Attached are scripts. The annotated script explains what is mostly
> obvious.
Thanks. I haven't looked at them yet, but expect as you say, after
looking at them, it'll all be "m
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"Drake Donahue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted
[EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 29
Aug
"Drake Donahue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted
[EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 29
Aug 2007 15:34:03 -0400:
> After some trial and error and burned cd's, I have a cd that without
> emulation or isolinux:
> will read the grub.conf selected on any of as many as four drives and
> boot any val
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From: "Peter Humphrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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On Tuesday 28 Aug 2007, Drake Donahue wrote:
You have selected:
first page; sata first disk to b
Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted
[EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 29 Aug
2007 09:50:03 +0100:
> That's a bit sophisticated if so, and I'm a bit wary of some of the
> logic design decisions here. Wouldn't it be good if BIOS makers told us
> how their systems operate? I never th
On Tuesday 28 Aug 2007, Drake Donahue wrote:
> You have selected:
> first page; sata first disk to boot from;
> second page; disk order 'raid sata 1', 'raid sata 2', 'old sata', ide; ?
Correct.
> Currently, after a boot/reboot to BIOS setup, does the third page still
> show the hard disk is 'ra
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From: "Peter Humphrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Disk boot order in grub
On Tuesday 28 Aug 2007, I wrote:
So now I have the BIOS disk order, the boot-time grub disk order
On Tuesday 28 Aug 2007, I wrote:
> So now I have the BIOS disk order, the boot-time grub disk order, the
> device.map file order and the grub on-line disk order all the same. That
> must be the end of the exercise, I hope.
Also, I forgot to say, the disk order implied in grub.conf.
--
Rgds
Pete
On Monday 27 Aug 2007, Drake Donahue wrote:
> Suggest:
> use fdisk to flag partitions /dev/sda/b/c1 bootable.
Ok. Done that, and it's made no perceptible difference.
> Notes:
[...]
> 3. Gentoo Linux x86 with Software Raid and LVM2 Quick Install Guide does
> not mention setting bootable but is no
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From: "Peter Humphrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 7:33 AM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Disk boot order in grub
Are any of your partitions flagged as bootable? The fdisk -l data
provided
earlier for the sata disks
Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted
[EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 27 Aug
2007 12:33:04 +0100:
> All of which makes me wonder what the device map is for, seeing as
> booting succeeds without it.
The device map is for one thing: telling grub what BIOS order your boot
devices a
On Sunday 26 Aug 2007, Drake Donahue wrote:
> This part of the action is in accord with the grub manual.
> if there is no device.map and --device.map is invoked a device.map should
> be generated.
> if there is no device.map and --device.map is not invoked a device.map
> should not be generated.
>
On Monday 27 Aug 2007, Drake Donahue wrote:
> More dumb questions:
> The rescue system used is the one on the IDE drive?
> You booted the rescue system by setting up the BIOS boot order to boot the
> ide first?
> You booted the rescue system by setting up the BIOS boot order to boot the
> old sata
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From: "Peter Humphrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 7:24 AM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Disk boot order in grub
I had run grub after editing the device map, but simply with the
command "grub". After readi
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From: "Peter Humphrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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On Saturday 25 Aug 2007, Drake Donahue wrote:
dumb questions time:
after editing /boot/grub/de
On Saturday 25 Aug 2007, Drake Donahue wrote:
> dumb questions time:
> after editing /boot/grub/device.map did you reinstall grub using either
> grub-install --device-map (hd1)
> [where hd1 can be hd0 or hd2 or hd3]
> or
> grub --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map
> to invoke grub command line usin
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From: "Duncan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 7:59 PM
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Disk boot order in grub
Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted
[EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 25 Aug
2007 09:00:55
Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted
[EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 25 Aug
2007 09:00:55 +0100:
>> BTW, when you cat'ed the old device.map it appeared that the old sata
>> was being seen as an ide device.
>
> I don't think so.
Just in case the GP wasn't aware, GRUB uses "hd" f
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From: "Peter Humphrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 4:00 AM
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On Friday 24 Aug 2007, Drake Donahue wrote:
Your board is Supermicro H8DCE? If so, the User'
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From: "Peter Humphrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 4:00 AM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Disk boot order in grub
On Friday 24 Aug 2007, Drake Donahue wrote:
Your board is Supermicro H8DCE? If so, the User'
On Friday 24 Aug 2007, Drake Donahue wrote:
> Your board is Supermicro H8DCE? If so, the User's Manual does hurt.
> I suspect BIOS upgrade will not change the behavior you've seen.
No, I don't really expect anything wonderful either.
> All I've seen says grub must adapt to BIOS vice any other ch
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From: "Peter Humphrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 5:19 AM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Disk boot order in grub
On Thursday 23 Aug 2007, Peter Humphrey wrote:
That's the answer - thanks!
I spoke too
On Thursday 23 Aug 2007, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> That's the answer - thanks!
I spoke too soon.
Correcting the device.map file made no difference; my problem is clearly in
the BIOS. What follows refers exclusively to the BIOS setup process; grub is
not involved, let alone Gentoo.
The BIOS setu
On Thursday 23 Aug 2007, Drake Donahue wrote:
> if the device maps are different or not what you thought when you wrote
> grub.conf .
That's the answer - thanks! I have this:
# cat /boot/grub/device.map
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/hda
(hd1) /dev/hdb
(hd2) /dev/sda
(hd3) /dev/sdb
Thi
Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted
[EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 22 Aug
2007 09:35:47 +0100:
> On Sunday 19 Aug 2007, Duncan wrote:
>>
>> Four things:
>>
>> Number one, if you are using md/RAID, you failed to mention it,
>
> I did not fail. I gave sufficient information, as
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From: "Peter Humphrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 4:35 AM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Disk boot order in grub
On Sunday 19 Aug 2007, Duncan wrote:
Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted
[EMAIL PROTECTED
On Sunday 19 Aug 2007, Duncan wrote:
> Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 19 Aug
>
> 2007 11:34:56 +0100:
> > This box now has a slightly odd arrangement of disks. It has two new
> > SATA disks on the first two SATA interfaces, another SATA disk
Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted
[EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 19 Aug
2007 11:34:56 +0100:
> This box now has a slightly odd arrangement of disks. It has two new
> SATA disks on the first two SATA interfaces, another SATA disk on the
> third SATA interface, and it also has
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