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Reiserfs bug? Builld problem?


From: COFFMAN Steven
Subject: Reiserfs bug? Builld problem?
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 22:43:54 -0500

I'm at a bit of a loss despite researching the list and various howtos,
and I was hoping that I'm missing something simple that someone might
notice.

I'm running a dual boot Windows 2000 (NTFS) and SuSE 7.3 Linux (Reiserfs)
box with
a 40 gig hard IDE drive (no SCSI devices). To get to Linux I use a boot disk
with lilo, but I'd like to install grub into the MBR and still be able to
get
to both Win2000 and Linux.

I created what looks like a correct menu.lst, but when I run 'grub-install
/dev/hda',
I get an "Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition"
at the "setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 --prefix=/boot/grub (hd0)" step.

I read on this list about the bug with Reiserfs so I then upgraded from the
grub 0.5.96.1 that came with SuSE to the grub 0.90-11 that comes with Red
Hat 7.2
and got the same result. I tried to manually patch and rebuild that version
of
 grub from their SRPM, but I get only get to the "GRUB requires a working
absolute objcopy; upgrade your binutils" message. The binutils that SuSE
ships
is newer than RedHat 7.2's, so I can't see how they were able to build and I
can't.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, even if it's just an RTFM with a
pointer
to the right  FM. I've included my 'sfdisk -l hda' and 'cat menu.lst' in
case I
left out a pertinent details.

 sfdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 5005 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start     End   #cyls   #blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *      0+   3915    3916- 31455238+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2       3916    3921       6     48195   83  Linux
/dev/hda3       3922    4874     953   7654972+  83  Linux
/dev/hda4       4875    5004     130   1044225    f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5       4875+   5004     130-  1044193+  82  Linux swap

  cat /boot/grub/menu.lst

#by default, boot the first entry
default =1

#Boot automatically after 30 secs.
timeout =30

#Fall back to second entry
fallback=0

#color

# Linux
title Linux
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3

# Windows
title Windows 2000
unhide (hd0,0)
hide (hd0,1)
hide (hd0,2)
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1



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