>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. > GRUB reports the same memory situation on a variety of my boxes running O/S from RH 9 through FC3. I dont know what it means. I've tried using grub's 'uppermem' command to increase it, but the thing still segfaults at 'setup'. Cheers, Terry. > > >> >> [ 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 ~]$ > >-- >fedora-list mailing list >fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
