Sorry for replying this late, but I couldn't access inet this morning.

 

I've performed more fresh installs and all tests passed for an ext4 boot partition. Everything seems to be ok.

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Jordy van Wolferen <jordz@archlinux.us> wrote:

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Gerhard Brauer <gerbra@archlinux.de> wrote:

Am Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:14:11 +0100
schrieb Jordy van Wolferen <jordz@archlinux.us>:

> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:16 AM, Aaron Griffin
> <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Jordy van Wolferen
> > <jordz@archlinux.us> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 16:51 -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> > >> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Jordy van Wolferen
> > >> <jordz@archlinux.us>
> > wrote:
> > >>

> > >> To be clear: this is not an error booting the ISO, but an error
> > >> booting the installed system?
> > >>
> > >> Grub error #2: http://www.uruk.org/orig-grub/errors.html#stage1_5
> > >> "The selected disk doesn't exist"
> > >>
> > >> I imagine this is ext4 related. You are using grub and not
> > >> grub-gfx, correct?
> > >>
> > >> Gerhard, any insight here? I, myself, haven't installed an ext4
> > >> system, so I am not sure about this.

No, i have seen no problems on my test installations when using the
current versions (grub from core and grub-gfx from community). Both are
on the same patch-level (bigger inode size patch and ext4 support
patch).

> I just tried doing the same ftp install with ext3 and I still got the
> same error. Also the same error with a ext4 core install. So it must
> be something from my side.

Stage 1.5 (resp. Stage 2 error 2): Aaron posted a link on error codes
where this error code is "Selected disk doesn't exist", on gnu.org
grub site it says: "2 : Bad file or directory type".
Have you ever had installed Arch and Grub on this system? So that you
can say: this error is only on a new installation with the new isos?

> I tried to change the root setting in grub and the kernel
> root=/dev/sda1 parameter, instead of the UUID, but I still got the
> same problem.

Maybe you could show us your disk(s) layout (fdisk -l) and grub's
menu.lst (and the content of /boot/grub/device.map.

Gerhard

I installed Arch a couple of times on it before. I remember that I needed to change root (hd0,0) to (hd1,0) or the other way around. Or that it can't load the kernel, but than you can edit the grub entries or ofcourse remove the other harddisk. But now it doesn't work and I never have seen the grub error 2. Grub from Arch was running fine a few days ago.

I tried disabling IDE in the bios after an installation, without success. I'm going to try to do that before the installation. It has something to do that I have both IDE and SATA .

I found some info here: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/7137
I'm going to try that. What just hit me, is that I flashed my bios about half a year ago, but after that it kept booting fine? Must be that now is the first time I tried installing grub with the new bios. I don't think there is something wrong with the new ISOs.