Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Parkes alpha 1

[rsiddharth]

On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 16:16:08 +1000, Andrew Roffey wrote:


> You're using GRUB Legacy, so perhaps an ext4 support issue? I did a
> quick internet search, and it looks like GRUB Legacy has to be 
> patched
> to support ext4.

I am not really sure whether the newly installed system has GRUB Legacy 
or the GRUB2 as I see no "menu.lst" file in the /boot directory, but I'd 
find the "grub.cfg" file somewhere in the /boot directory.

I ran the "grub-install -v" command (after chrooting into the root 
partition of the newly installed system) to find that the version of 
GRUB is 1.98.

> You could just use a Live CD of another distro to install GRUB2 
> instead.
> Just mount your partition and do
> # grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/ /dev/sda

I ran a live session of Trisquel 4.5 and hit the following commands:

# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
# mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
# mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys
# chroot /mnt
# grub-install --recheck /dev/sda
# update-grub

After this, I restarted the system and Bang! GRUB loaded successfully 
and started gNewSense 3.0 alpha. I was able to log in to GNOME.

These links were helpful in solving the problem:

http://digg.com/newsbar/topnews/How_to_fix_Grub2_error_15_in_Ubuntu

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Installing#ChRoot


Thanks for your response Andrew Roffey.



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rsiddharth