Red Hat's Plymouth Sees New Activity

[Louise]

You forgot a few commands, as you loop mount the device then copy stage1/2 and THEN you use that grub command. Read better next time.

I understood those, so I just pasted the part that I hadn't seen before.

What I don't understand is what happens when those 4 lines are executed.

Comparing the first 446 bytes of stage1 with first 446 bytes of MBR gives that they are not the same.

I would have expected that.

[AHSauge]

All I know is, when I booted Fedora 11 and it decided to scan/verify my hard disk, the graphical boot just sat there like something in the background had locked up, with no status messages or anything. I removed "rhgb" from my grub.conf and that was the last of it. The text boot might not be as pretty, but at least it lets me know WTF is going on.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you can press 'esc' to switch to and from text mode when booting in graphics mode.

[Kano]

You forgot a few commands, as you loop mount the device then copy stage1/2 and THEN you use that grub command. Read better next time.

[Louise]

@Louise

I don't know how to install grub2 in an image, but grub1 is possilbe this way:

http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11653

I think I use grub1 as well.

[root@localhost ~]# rpm -qa|grep -i grub
grub-0.97-13.2
[root@localhost ~]#

but I don't have --device-map

Does this install stage1?

grub --device-map=/dev/null --batch <<EOT
device (hd0) /dev/loop0
root (hd0,0)
EOT

[Kano]

@Louise

I don't know how to install grub2 in an image, but grub1 is possilbe this way:

http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11653

[MaestroMaus]

This news post was the most useless one ever...

[Louise]

@Louise

I don't know what grub has todo with that topic, but /dev/sda must be wrong, even in chroot.

I did first try /dev/xvda, but gave an error.

With /dev/sda it wrote the stage1 in MBR.

Do you know an easier way?

[Kano]

@Louise

I don't know what grub has todo with that topic, but /dev/sda must be wrong, even in chroot.

[Louise]

All I know is, when I booted Fedora 11 and it decided to scan/verify my hard disk, the graphical boot just sat there like something in the background had locked up, with no status messages or anything. I removed "rhgb" from my grub.conf and that was the last of it. The text boot might not be as pretty, but at least it lets me know WTF is going on.

Are you kidding? Text mode is so much prettier than ANY Fedora Theme

I have been using RedHat/Fedora for 9 years, and would never change, but their themes are the ugliest of all Linux distributions!

[hubick]

All I know is, when I booted Fedora 11 and it decided to scan/verify my hard disk, the graphical boot just sat there like something in the background had locked up, with no status messages or anything. I removed "rhgb" from my grub.conf and that was the last of it. The text boot might not be as pretty, but at least it lets me know WTF is going on.