Re: Grub2 problem?

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Dienstag, den 21.07.2009, 10:27 -0400 schrieb BandiPat:
> Hi devs,
> I just received this email on our Zenwalk list, complaining about a 
> Grub2 failure to install with the latest Alpha release of the new 
> Zenwalk.  As you may know, Zenwalk is planning to be one of the first 
> distributions to release with Grub2 as it's primary bootloader, so we 
> are trying to get all the bugs worked out prior to final release.

Ubuntu karmic will use it as default bootloader too.

>   I 
> will include the user's email, plus his picture of the error.  At this 
> point I'm not sure it is a Grub2 error, but I'm hoping maybe you can at 
> least give me some input.  I believe the version is svn2383, so if it 
> was a problem, it may be fixed by the latest I just built, svn2430?  I'm 
> trying to get more details, but thought I should follow up with you guys 
> as well.  Here's the message and pic.
> 
> TIA
> Pat

The picture clearly shows that he has now to use --force option if he
really wants blocklists.

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> 
>   -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 6.2 alpha: grub install failure
>    Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:31:22 +0100
>    From: M.S.Colclough <address@hidden>
>    Reply-To: address@hidden
>    To: address@hidden
> 
> 
> 
> I installed 6.2 alpha on a pc that had 6.0 and lilo (no previous install
> problems).  All defaults, Autopartition, followed by grub to MBR.
> "Something went wrong" said the message.  Indeed it has: installation
> looks OK, but unbootable (a broken lilo message: L 99).  sg2conf.log
> mutters about no post-mbr gap (see attached screenshot).
> 
> Somebody on the archlinux forums suggests "parted 1 set bios_grub on".
> I didn't try this because parted on the install disk is broken (no
> libparted)
> 
> Mark
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Felix Zielcke