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RE: GRUB booting from FAT32?
From: |
Treutwein Bernhard |
Subject: |
RE: GRUB booting from FAT32? |
Date: |
Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:31:16 +0100 |
Oops, as far as I know, long file names are not
limited to FAT32, but can also exist under FAT16.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Trounson [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 10:44 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: GRUB booting from FAT32?
>
[...]
> EXT2 drivers, I decided to go with making the /boot partition FAT.
>
that should be possible, but you really don't have to
kill your existing (working boot partition).
> I copied all files from the /boot partition to a safe location,
> re-defined /boot as FAT32 (with fdisk and mkdosfs) and copied
> the files back.
> I had to copy grub.conf to menu.lst, as it used to be
> symlinked.
>
sounds like a Redhat modified Grub ...
> Now when I reboot, I get an Error 17 ("cannot mount selected
> partition").
>
hmm, is there the fat_stage1_5 present?
> If I redefine the partition as FAT16(again with fdisk and mkdosfs) and
> re-copy the files, I don't get Error 17, I get Error 15 ("file not
> found"). I think I know why the Error 15 occurrs, since the
> menu.lst is
> located in /grub relative to the partition, not /boot/grub.
>
> This would suggest to me that GRUB can read FAT16 but not FAT32, which
> seems to go against what's stated in the GRUB manual.
>
> Has anyone else had any luck getting GRUB to read FAT32?
>
I did not have any problems with FAT (16/32) with long
file name support.
--
Bernhard Treutwein, IuK, Ref. III A 3
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