Re: Grub-install documentation or override?

[mgreger]

I have a 15GB image file partitioned using fdisk with a single MBR partition 
and containing an ext4 file system which contains my LFS system. I used kpartx 
on this to create /dev/loop0 and /dev/mapper/loop0p1. The file system in 
/dev/loop0p1 is mounted on /mnt. I am chrooted into /mnt where my LFS system 
resides. Grub in the LFS system was built with the following (from LFS 
documentation):

./configure --prefix=/usr          \
            --sbindir=/sbin        \
            --sysconfdir=/etc      \
            --disable-grub-emu-usb \
            --disable-efiemu       \
            --disable-werror

Command used:
 grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/loop0

When that failed, I also tried a number of variations on this command, all of 
which also failed. I tried following examples on the net regarding creating a 
device.map and populating it with (hd0) /dev/loop0
Grub seems to read the file OK, but the install still fails.

The host machine is a 64-bit install of Debian 8, although that shouldn't 
matter.

If I do this on a real drive instead of a mounted image it works, but that 
doesn't help me. Shouldn't it be possible to install grub to a loopback device?

Thanks in advance for any help.




---- Andrei Borzenkov <address@hidden> wrote: 
> Please, describe your configuration, and provide exact command you used. 
> Otherwise it is impossible to say anything.
> 
> Отправлено с iPhone
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> > 25 июня 2015 г., в 14:43, <address@hidden> <address@hidden> написал(а):
> > 
> > I absolutely cannot get grub-install to do what I need it to do: Install to 
> > the MBR on a disk image that is loop mounted with kpartx, while chrooted 
> > into an ext4 filesystem on the first partition of that image. The image 
> > will be used on a BIOS machine but the physical host is EFI.
> > 
> > This is for a linux from scratch 7.7 build and so uses the grub version 
> > found here: http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-2.02~beta2.tar.xz
> > 
> > I discovered the "target" argument to override the architecture by 
> > searching the web (it doesn't seem to be mentioned in any detail in the 
> > Grub manual), but I can't get it to install regardless. I get some 
> > nonsensical message about being unable to find 'lvm/loop0p1' although I am 
> > not using lvm in the image. The image only has a single MBR partition.
> > 
> > This seems like it should be a simple thing to do and if it is I apologize, 
> > but I really hate it when software tries to be clever in an effort to 
> > 'help' and makes assumptions that turn a simple matter into a nightmare.
> > 
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