-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Hi

I'm nearly there with my fresh Debian running. But now GRUB is fighting
and won't start. I know there was an easy way toinstall GRUB with
Knoppix but I can't make it work right now and don't find the resource
anymore.

Does anyone remember the resource an can point me to it or tell me what
exactly to do?

Christoph
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

 iD8DBQFHTEHSy7PXBwNyJ10RApOgAJ41Jy+b3jgY
UbxOe8m253rmQVTGLwCeIBDh
XYEhT8fKChd2YswnKz1y5N8=
=ONw5
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

[ Post a follow-up to this message ]

Christoph Egger wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm nearly there with my fresh Debian running. But now GRUB is fighting
> and won't start. I know there was an easy way toinstall GRUB with
> Knoppix but I can't make it work right now and don't find the resource
> anymore.
>
> Does anyone remember the resource an can point me to it or tell me what
> exactly to do?


http://jbakshi.50webs.com/Linux_tut...simplified.html


--
John

No Microsoft products were used in the preparation or transmission of this m
essage.

The EULA sounds like it was written by a team of lawyers who want to tell me
 what I can't do.  The GPL sounds like it was written by a human being, who 
wants me to know what I can do.

[ Post a follow-up to this message ]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

John F. Morse schrieb:
> Christoph Egger wrote: 
>
>
> http://jbakshi.50webs.com/Linux_tut...simplified.html
>
>

Thanks for this seemingly quite useful collection of GRUB Hows. But I
can't find a hint of where to specify the /boot folder used by
grub-install (as it seems --root-directory= is not the solution).

Christoph
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

 iD8DBQFHTE4Gy7PXBwNyJ10RAmloAJ9dW9+ZitqF
NEEa2UGdqOHnfre7GQCgiWgS
UQ0bkQLrrqn5M7zxl9/1JDQ=
=wosE
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

[ Post a follow-up to this message ]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Christoph Egger schrieb:
> Hi
>
> I'm nearly there with my fresh Debian running. But now GRUB is fighting
> and won't start. I know there was an easy way toinstall GRUB with
> Knoppix but I can't make it work right now and don't find the resource
> anymore.
>
> Does anyone remember the resource an can point me to it or tell me what
> exactly to do?
>
> Christoph

I've bootet the rescue console on my Debian CD but when trying to write
a new grub to my USB-Stick on /dev/sdb it tells me that
"schwehrwiegender Fehler" occured. The same for trying to write to my
root Partition on /dev/sda3

Christoph
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFHTFgxy7PXBwNyJ10RAtWaAJkBXqm/JLCEwn05Vuu+LygddWqUMgCdGS2o
HUml50Goqb3jHGygUC3qhK4=
=nap2
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

[ Post a follow-up to this message ]

Christoph Egger wrote:
> John F. Morse schrieb:
> 
>
> Thanks for this seemingly quite useful collection of GRUB Hows. But I
> can't find a hint of where to specify the /boot folder used by
> grub-install (as it seems --root-directory= is not the solution).
>
> Christoph
>


man grub-install

------------------------------------------------------------------------

GRUB-INSTALL(8)

<snip>

--root-directory=DIR
install  GRUB images under the directory DIR instead of
the root directory

grub-install copies GRUB images into the DIR/boot directory specified by
--root-directory, and uses the grub shell to install grub into the boot
sector.

------------------------------------------------------------------------

You shouldn't need to specify an alternate root directory. It should use
/boot as the DIR. and /boot/grub as the sub-directory.

Here is a Debian 4.0 directory for GRUB:

john@debian4.0:/boot$ ls -al
total 16820
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root    1024 Oct 13 08:38 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root    1024 Aug 25 15:49 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  716728 May  9  2007 System.map-2.6.18-4-486
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  717616 Oct  2 23:45 System.map-2.6.18-5-486
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   71818 May  9  2007 config-2.6.18-4-486
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   71695 Oct  2 18:31 config-2.6.18-5-486
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    1024 Oct 13 08:38 grub
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4373756 Aug 25 15:49 initrd.img-2.6.18-4-486
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4373789 May 20  2007 initrd.img-2.6.18-4-486.bak
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4373407 Oct 13 08:38 initrd.img-2.6.18-5-486
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1220119 May  9  2007 vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-486
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1219422 Oct  2 23:45 vmlinuz-2.6.18-5-486

john@debian4.0:/boot$ cd grub

john@debian4.0:/boot/grub$ ls -al
total 172
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   1024 Oct 13 08:38 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root   1024 Oct 13 08:38 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    197 Apr 18  2007 default
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     15 Apr 18  2007 device.map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   7584 Apr 18  2007 e2fs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   7424 Apr 18  2007 fat_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   8192 Apr 18  2007 jfs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   4179 Oct 13 08:38 menu.lst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   4179 Oct 13 08:38 menu.lst~
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   6848 Apr 18  2007 minix_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   9280 Apr 18  2007 reiserfs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    512 Apr 18  2007 stage1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 108360 Apr 18  2007 stage2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   8904 Apr 18  2007 xfs_stage1_5

Hope that helps.

Don't overlook man grub and man grub-install.


--
John

No Microsoft nor Apple products were used in the preparation or transmission
 of this message.

The EULA sounds like it was written by a team of lawyers who want to tell me
 what I can't do. The GPL sounds like it was written by a human being, who w
ants me to know what I can do.

[ Post a follow-up to this message ]

Christoph Egger wrote:
> I've bootet the rescue console on my Debian CD but when trying to write
> a new grub to my USB-Stick on /dev/sdb it tells me that
> "schwehrwiegender Fehler" occured. The same for trying to write to my
> root Partition on /dev/sda3
>
> Christoph
>


I cannot translate "schwehrwiegender" into English. Can you describe
what kind of error this is?

Please look carefully at the Website I provided earlier:
http://jbakshi.50webs.com/Linux_tut...simplified.html

I would think one of the HOWTOs (listed in the left column) would be
what you are seeking, such as the "GRUB Pen Drive - stage1 and stage2 on
different media" link.


--
John

No Microsoft nor Apple products were used in the preparation or transmission
 of this message.

The EULA sounds like it was written by a team of lawyers who want to tell me
 what I can't do. The GPL sounds like it was written by a human being, who w
ants me to know what I can do.

[ Post a follow-up to this message ]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

John F. Morse schrieb:
> Christoph Egger wrote: 
>
>
> I cannot translate "schwehrwiegender" into English. Can you describe
> what kind of error this is?

It means something like very serious

>
> Please look carefully at the Website I provided earlier:
> http://jbakshi.50webs.com/Linux_tut...simplified.html
>
> I would think one of the HOWTOs (listed in the left column) would be
> what you are seeking, such as the "GRUB Pen Drive - stage1 and stage2 on
> different media" link.
>

I've built the Boot-CD like it was told in this HowTo and can now boot
into my Debian install so it is some kind of solved I guess.

Christoph

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

 iD8DBQFHTHE6y7PXBwNyJ10RApw3AJ9LFZBarovR
Z0SBOXkx0NqkCVp0XgCeI5QY
LRBsQ+gdTq8IzEwMkom5kB0=
=hhLD
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

[ Post a follow-up to this message ]

Christoph Egger wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> John F. Morse schrieb:
> 
>
> It means something like very serious
>


Verstanden. Danke.

Ich spreche nicht deutsch, und es wurde nicht durch die AltaVista Babel
Fische übersetzt. ;-)

 
>
> I've built the Boot-CD like it was told in this HowTo and can now boot
> into my Debian install so it is some kind of solved I guess.
>
> Christoph
>


Glad to hear you got it working. From what I've read at that site, it
looks like everything about GRUB is covered in detail.


--
John

No Microsoft nor Apple products were used in the preparation or transmission
 of this message.

The EULA sounds like it was written by a team of lawyers who want to tell me
 what I can't do. The GPL sounds like it was written by a human being, who w
ants me to know what I can do.

[ Post a follow-up to this message ]

John F. Morse wrote:
>
>
> Glad to hear you got it working. From what I've read at that site, it
> looks like everything about GRUB is covered in detail.
>
>


Maybee the single problem really was me thinking of an simple line I
used last time and not being open for other solutions but nevermind

Christoph

[ Post a follow-up to this message ]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:03:58 +0100, Christoph Egger wrote:

> John F. Morse wrote: 
>
>
> Maybee the single problem really was me thinking of an simple line I
> used last time and not being open for other solutions but nevermind
>
> Christoph

This may help someone in the future:

Procedure to re-install grub to first drive MBR


Boot Ubuntu ( This system sees SATA drives with BIOS set for native support 
)

1 - start shell window.

2 – ubuntu$ sudo mount /dev/sda3 /mnt		( / )

3 – ubuntu$ sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/usr	(/usr)

4 – ubuntu$ sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/boot	(/boot)

5 – ubuntu$ cd /mnt

6 - /mnt$ sudo cp ./boot/grub/* ./usr/lib (grub-install looks for files in
/usr/lib)

7 - /mnt$ sudo grub-install –root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda

8 my result, yours will be different
(hd0)		/dev/sda
(hd1)		/dev/sdb
(hd2)		/dev/sdc
(hd3)		/dev/sdd

Take care, Bob

[ Post a follow-up to this message ]