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René Pfeiffer [lynx at luchs.at]
Hello!
I had a decent fight with a stubborn server today. It was a Fedora Core 6 system (let's not talk about how old it is) that was scheduled for a change of disks. This is fairly straightforward - until you have to write the boot block. Unfortunately I prepared the new disks before copying the files. As soon as I wanted to install GRUB 0.97 it told me that it could not read the stage1 file. The problem is that GRUB only deals with 128-byte inodes. The prepared / partition has 256-byte inodes. So make sure to use
mkfs.ext3 -I 128 /dev/sda1
when preparing disks intended to co-exist with GRUB. I know this is old news, but I never encountered this problem before. http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/6480/2/ has more hints ready.
Best, René, who is thinking about moving back to LILO.
Thomas Adam [thomas.adam22 at gmail.com]
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 01:07:03AM +0100, Ren? Pfeiffer wrote:
> Hello! > > I had a decent fight with a stubborn server today. It was a Fedora Core > 6 system (let's not talk about how old it is) that was scheduled for a > change of disks. This is fairly straightforward - until you have to > write the boot block. Unfortunately I prepared the new disks before
+1 for Debian here then, who manages to get this right off the bat.
-- Thomas Adam
-- "It was the cruelest game I've ever played and it's played inside my head." -- "Hush The Warmth", Gorky's Zygotic Mynci.
Mulyadi Santosa [mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com]
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:07 AM, René Pfeiffer <[email protected]> wrote:
> that it could not read the stage1 file. The problem is that GRUB only > deals with 128-byte inodes. The prepared / partition has 256-byte > inodes. So make sure to use > > mkfs.ext3 -I 128 /dev/sda1 > > when preparing disks intended to co-exist with GRUB. I know this is old > news, but I never encountered this problem before. > http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/6480/2/ has more hints > ready.
Never thought about that before. Thanks for the tip!
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