[Buildroot] Grub not working?

Alexander Rigbo alexander.rigbo at acgnystrom.se
Wed Dec 13 12:35:08 UTC 2006


On Wednesday 13 December 2006 13:23, Christophe Lucas wrote:
> Alexander Rigbo (alexander.rigbo at acgnystrom.se) wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm making a small system for a pc/104 computer, but i'm having some
> > troubles with grub.
> > Grub is built and installed to my root, but i can't use it to install the
> > bootloader to MBR. See following output:
> >
> > grub> root (hd0,1)
> >  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> > grub> setup (hd0)
> >  Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
> >  Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... no
> >
> > Error 15: File not found
> >
> > But, on hda2 (my root partition) i have:
> >
> > [root at uclibc grub]# ls -l /boot/grub/stage1
> > -rwxr-xr-x     1 root      root             512 Dec 13 03:25
> > /boot/grub/stage1
> >
> > What can this be?
> > Grub bug? uClibc bug? buildroot? my fault (most likely though)?
>
> Only one partition ? (hd0,1) is your rootfs or your /boot partition ?
>
> I have had lot of problem with grub on wrap plateform. Now I use lilo
> for x86 processor family.
>
> 	Christophe

Hi,

I have a swap on hda1, hda2 is my root (/) and i have no other partitions. 
I've been using this setup with grub before, just not uclibc/buildroot.

I will try lilo, but i like grub better :)

Alex



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