Re: GRUB weirdness (readme please)

[Adam Pribyl <pribyl lowlevel cz>]

On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Hans de Goede wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I just spend (lost) way too much time on some grub weirdness,
> so I thought it would be a good idea to write it down somewhere.
>
> ...
>
> Then I tried to setup grub manually (using a device.map
> for the dmraid BIOS mapping), but when I entered:
> grub> root (hd0,1)
> grub> setup (hd0)
>
> Grub complained it could fined neither of /grub/stage1
> and /boot/grub/stage1, where as ls clearly shows
> /boot/grub/stage1, it can be successfully cat-ed etc.
> Which explains why the setup failed, but why does grub
> not find stage1?
>
> ...
>
> So: grub run under Linux (the grub shell) cannot find stage1,
> but run under the BIOS (so stage2) can find vmlinuz and initrd ????
>
> Regards,
>
> Hans

Is this getting close to bug 489652 we've discussed? Even thou you've got 
to this situation in different way, IMHO the root cause could be similar.

Adam Pribyl