GRUB problems on FC3/x86-64

T. Horsnell tsh at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Wed Apr 13 17:52:25 UTC 2005


Hi all,
I'm seeing odd behaviour of grub v0.95 on my Opteron box
(FC3 + all updates as of 6 April). The box only has SCSI disks.

The first oddity is that command-line editing and recall
dont work. Grub just echoes back a string of  ^[[A
or ^[[D stuff. This works OK on my FC3/x86 box.
Also, grub exits after a CTRL/D on the Opteron box, but
needs the quit command on the PC.

The real problem though, is that 'find' doesnt seem
to work, although I can 'cat' the file OK:

[root at ls1 ~]$ grub
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.


    GNU GRUB  version 0.95  (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)

 [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.  For the first word, TAB
   lists possible command completions.  Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
   completions of a device/filename.]
grub> cat (hd0,0)/junk.sda1
cat (hd0,0)/junk.sda1
This is /dev/sda1
grub> find /boot/junk.sda1
find /boot/junk.sda1

Error 15: File not found
grub> find junk.sda1
find junk.sda1

Error 15: File not found
grub> root (hd0,0)
root (hd0,0)
 Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
grub> find junk.sda1
find junk.sda1

Error 15: File not found
grub> 


All this works OK on the PC, which is booted from
an IDE disk, but also has SCSI disks attached.

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Terry.




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