Subject: Re: RH7.3 and Grub?
From: "Jonathan F. Dill" <dill@umbi.umd.edu>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>
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Date: 07 Jun 2002 15:03:13 -0400
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The symptom that I got with both "upgrades" that I did was that GRUB
complained that some files were missing and crapped out to the
interactive grub> prompt.  If I try it again, I'll write down the
filenames.

On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 14:54, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Hi Nick - 
> 
> There were problems in the 7.2 installer with things not getting synced
> out to disk properly, so the installer has a big "sync; sleep 30; sync;
> sleep 30" in the grub path.  :)
> 
> It worked for me when I tested it, but there have been reports of
> failure.
> 
> So in essence, it's not working very well; the sleep/sync trick helps,
> so it might work for you.
> 
> -Eric
> 
> On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 13:23, Nick Pollitt wrote:
> > Is grub supported yet on the 7.3 XFS installer?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Nick
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Jonathan F. Dill <dill@umbi.umd.edu>
UMBI CARB