On 4/20/05, T. Horsnell <tsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > grub 0.95 + FC3 + 2.6.10-1.770_FC3smp on an Opteron. > > I'm trying to make a bootable sysdisk clone. > My real sysdisk is /dev/sda, the clone is /dev/sdb > I've got a device-map file which maps hd0 to /dev/sdb > and hd1 to /dev/sda. When I issue the 'setup'command > to grub, it does some work then segfaults, and the > clone sysdisk is unbootable. Any ideas? > > Cheers, > Terry. > > [root@ls1 ~]$ grub --device-map=/root/device.map.sdb > > GNU GRUB version 0.95 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) BIG problem here - you definitely have more than 3 megs of ram. This may be all that linux gives it, but it may not be enough. I would suggest doing all this from grub itself before it loads linux. > > [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB > lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible > completions of a device/filename.] > grub> root (hd0,0) > root (hd0,0) > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > grub> setup (hd0) > setup (hd0) > Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no > Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... yes > Checking if "/grub/stage2" exists... yes > Checking if "/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes > Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 16 sectors are embedded. > succeeded > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > [root@ls1 ~]$
