Hi,
I've installed FC3 on a new machine having 2 SATA disks and 1 PATA. I'm using the PATA disk temporarily as a way to get around the issues with kernel that FC3 is based on. Everything seems to be fine, however I can not get grub to install on any of the SATA disk. It just crashes.
Here is the setup:
1. Windows in stalled on /dev/sda.
2. Installed FC3 on /dev/hda (the PATA disk).
3. boot into FC3 and update the kernel and everything else
4. boot into FC3 (now the SATA disks are recognized)
5. partitioned /dev/sdb, copy / to /dev/sdb2, and /boot to /dev/sdb1 (/dev/sdb3 is swap)
6. I updated the device.map to include /dev/sda and /dev/sdb
fix the /etc/fstab on the sata drive (/dev/sdb2)
add entries to grub.conf so that I can:
a. boot from the PATA disk (both root and /boot are on /dev/hda) (the original configuration)
b. boot where / is /dev/sdb2, /boot is /dev/hda1 (i.e. only the root is taken from the sata drive)
c. boot from the SATA disk (both root and /boot are on /dev/sdb)
so far everything is fine. I can boot into any of these configuration.
Now, I'm trying to install grub on the SATA drive so I can return the PATA drive I have borrowed.
However, it doesn't matter if I use "grub-install /dev/sda" or if I go into the grub shell and run the setup from there.
In both cases I get the same:
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[root@visware ~]# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb2 151701060 3193736 140801348 3% /
none 1029028 0 1029028 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hdb 652756 652756 0 100% /media/cdrecorder
/dev/sdb1 101086 20061 75806 21% /boot
[root@visware ~]# grub-install /dev/sda
/sbin/grub-install: line 475: 6134 Segmentation fault $grub_shell --batch $no_floppy --device-map=$device_map >$log_file <<EOF
root $root_drive
setup $force_lba --stage2=$grubdir/stage2 --prefix=$grub_prefix $install_drive
quit
EOF
Installation finished. No error reported. This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map. Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect, fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'.
# this device map was generated by anaconda (fd0) /dev/fd0 (hd0) /dev/sdb (hd1) /dev/sda (hd2) /dev/hda
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The order of the disks in the device.map does not matter (I fix the grub.conf accordingly).
No matter what I tried, I can not get grub to install on the SATA disk.
Any idea ?
Thanks,
Yarden
