Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.98+20100617-1
Severity: important
Hello,
This is to report a regression from Version 1.98-1 which "Works For
Me". In order to help with the 'testing' of grub2 I recently installed
the newer version mentioned in the bug report.
I have grub2 installed to an external USB hard disk which is
formatted using GPT partition table. There is a separate BIOS boot
partition where I think grub is supposed to write its stage2.
The boot/root partition is inside an LVM partion.
The disk is recognised by linux on both systems as /dev/sdb.
On one laptop (IBM Thinkpad R51) the system boots normally.
On the other laptop (HCL Mileap based on Intel's old Classmate
design), grub goes into rescue mode with "no such disk" error. In this
state the disks and the partitions are recognised. However,
it does not recognise ext2 or lvm in this case. (I have a separate
ext2 partition on the disk which I attempted to use as root in
rescue mode but grub could not read the file system.)
I'm completely mystified and would be willing to experiment or
provide additional data in order to debug the problem.
Regards,
Kapil.
--
-- Package-specific info:
*********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts
/dev/mapper/ghoom-mool / ext3 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/mapper/makan /home ext4 rw,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/mapper/ghoom-dubyen /var/cache/approx ext4
rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
*********************** END /proc/mounts
*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/device.map
(hd0) /dev/sdb
(hd1) /dev/sdc
*********************** END /boot/grub/device.map
*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/grub.cfg
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then
load_env
fi
set default="${saved_entry}"
if [ ${prev_saved_entry} ]; then
set saved_entry=${prev_saved_entry}
save_env saved_entry
set prev_saved_entry=
save_env prev_saved_entry
set boot_once=true
fi
function savedefault {
if [ -z ${boot_once} ]; then
saved_entry=${chosen}
save_env saved_entry
fi
}
if terminal_input console ; then true ; else
# For backward compatibility with versions of terminal.mod that don't
# understand terminal_input
terminal console
fi
if terminal_output console ; then true ; else
# For backward compatibility with versions of terminal.mod that don't
# understand terminal_output
terminal console
fi
set timeout=5
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue
set menu_color_highlight=white/blue
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-5-686" --class debian --class
gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
insmod lvm
insmod ext2
set root='(ghoom-mool)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 6db2ca23-5a1e-4114-aa9b-930030d790fb
echo Loading Linux 2.6.32-5-686 ...
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686 root=/dev/mapper/ghoom-mool ro quiet
echo Loading initial ramdisk ...
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (recovery mode)" --class
debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
insmod lvm
insmod ext2
set root='(ghoom-mool)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 6db2ca23-5a1e-4114-aa9b-930030d790fb
echo Loading Linux 2.6.32-5-686 ...
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686 root=/dev/mapper/ghoom-mool ro
single
echo Loading initial ramdisk ...
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
if [ -f $prefix/custom.cfg ]; then
source $prefix/custom.cfg;
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
*********************** END /boot/grub/grub.cfg
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.32 Debian configuration management sy
ii grub-common 1.98-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version
ii libc6 2.11.1-3 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii ucf 3.0025 Update Configuration File: preserv
grub-pc recommends no packages.
Versions of packages grub-pc suggests:
pn desktop-base <none> (no description available)
-- debconf information:
grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline:
* grub2/linux_cmdline:
grub-pc/install_devices_empty: false
grub-pc/chainload_from_menu.lst: true
grub-pc/kopt_extracted: false
* grub-pc/install_devices: /dev/sdb
grub-pc/postrm_purge_boot_grub: false
grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline_default: quiet
* grub2/linux_cmdline_default: quiet
grub-pc/mixed_legacy_and_grub2: true
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