[arch-releng] Grub and ext4, error 2

[Gerhard Brauer]

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

> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:16 AM, Aaron Griffin
> <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Jordy van Wolferen
> > <jordz at 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 at 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