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Osiris

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Booting from foreign GRUB installation

Hello,

I have GRUB 1.98 installed in the MBR of my sda (Kubuntu 10.04 installation). Arch Linux is installed on the GPT partioned sdb1. This version of Grub should be GPT aware afaik.

update-grub from Kubuntu finds the Arch installation and inserts it into the config:

menuentry "Arch (on /dev/sdb1)" {
        insmod ext2
        set root='(hd1,1)'
        search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 96a5b0b8-9e61-4fa4-876e-31e589831dec
        linux /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sdb1
        initrd /boot/kernel26.img

blkid /dev/sdb1 give me the same UUID. sdb1 is ext4 formatted.

But booting does not work, grub gives the message:

error: no such device: 96a5b0b8-9e61-4fa4-876e-31e589831dec
error: no such partition
error: you need to load the kernel first

What could be wrong?

Thanks,

Florian

Last edited by Osiris (2011-01-01 16:02:56)

graysky

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Re: Booting from foreign GRUB installation

What if you comment out the search line?

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Osiris

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Re: Booting from foreign GRUB installation

This produces the same message, just without the first line.