Bug#494589: grub-setup fails with "error message = file not found"

Edward Allcutt emallcut at gleim.com
Wed Aug 13 17:54:51 UTC 2008


Robert Millan wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 11:53:27AM -0400, Edward Allcutt wrote:
>> [2] http://dev.teamgleim.com/~emallcut/grub2/sda.mbr.gz
>> [3] http://dev.teamgleim.com/~emallcut/grub2/sda1.gz
> 
> Those scattered pieces of disk are not very useful.  My suspicion is that
> grub-setup has trashed your GPT metadata.  Can you verify that all your
> partitions are still readable from real GRUB, and that files are accessible
> as well? (from a rescue disk or so)
Just booted from a floppy image created by latest upstream. It read the 
GPT data just fine.

I'll see if I can juggle the existing partitions sufficiently to fit a 
dedicated boot partition.

-- 
Edward Allcutt
Network Operations





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