Re: GRUB documentation in Gentoo Handbook

[Sven Vermeulen]

On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 09:06:58PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> Another problem is that it recommends using the grub shell directly 
> rather than grub-install. As written in the manual, we cannot recommend 
> this, because it can produce bad consequences due to disk cache 
> problems in Linux. We have implemented many workarounds in the script 
> grub-install, and we hope you will utilize them to overcome 
> difficulties in installing a boot loader.
> 
> If you don't want to use grub-install for some reason, please implement 
> the same workarounds in the handbook or your own script. Otherwise, we 
> get many bug reports about problems that we have already solved with a 
> lot of effort.

Apparently using grub-install made things worse -- many people just couldn't
get GRUB installed on their system. I've reverted the instructions back to
the previous ones (with the interactive prompt) for the time being.

Gentoo is installed through a chrooted environment. Running
  """
    # grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/hda
  """
should install GRUB in the MBR, no? The "--root-directory" option is needed
because we ask the user to have a separate /boot partition. This partition
is mounted under /boot (in the chroot - /mnt/gentoo/boot outside the
chroot).

Users receive the following error when they run that command:
  """
    Could not find device for /boot/boot: Not found or not a block device.
  """

I don't have this error when running grub-install from a live system so I
guess it is due to the chroot (sorry, don't have a spare box to test on)?
I've searched your manual/faq for the resolution but was unable to find one.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Wkr,
      Sven Vermeulen

PS My apologies if this mailinglist isn't the appropriate channel

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