[arch-releng] Grub and ext4, error 2

Alexander De Sousa aphanic at archlinux.us
Tue Jan 27 11:18:28 EST 2009


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 at archlinux.us>wrote:

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