Re: Configure options questions

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From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 6:33:56 AM
Subject: Re: Configure options questions

On 20.03.2012 03:59, address@hidden wrote:
> various modules
Exact error message?

Hi Vladimir,

Just to followup on this, I was able to use my iPad's camera to capture the 
boot sequence & here's what the messages were:

error: file "/@/boot/grub/i386-pc/raid.mod" not found.
error: file "/@/boot/grub/i386-pc/efi_gop.mod" not found.
error: file "/@/boot/grub/i386-pc/efi_uga.mod" not found.
error: file "/@/boot/grub/locale/en.mo.gz" not found.
error: no suitable video mode found.
error: no video mode activated.
error: file "/@/boot/grub/i386-pc/efi_gop.mod" not found.
error: file "/@/boot/grub/i386-pc/efi_uga.mod" not found.
  Booting "Ubuntu, with Linux 3.2.0-17-generic"
error: sparse file not allowed.

The last message is a known problem with grubenv on btrfs.  The other error 
messages I think have to do with the Gigabyte hybrid BIOS, which can handle 
drives larger than 2TB.  (My MB is a Gigabyte X58A-UD3Rv2.)  GRUB is detecting 
this at boot & tries to configure it, though my drives are 1TB.  I didn't build 
the efi support, only the bios support so these files don't exist in i386-pc, & 
that's why these messages are appearing.

After this, the boot does proceed, but I still have the initramfs problem.  So, 
GRUB does appear to be working correctly & the configure options do appear to 
be the minimum I need.

Thanks for your help!

    -John