Re: setup-storage + grub2

2010-11-08 Diskussionsfäden Mathieu Alorent
Le lundi 08 novembre 2010 à 16:54 +0100, Michael Tautschnig a écrit : > > ... show this kind of behavior. I have commited a patch to > experimental, which > is included in 4.0~beta2+experimental39. Could you update your lab > hosts and see > whether the change breaks any standard installations? An

Re: setup-storage + grub2

2010-11-08 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
Hi Mathieu, (I think this was the most recent on-list message.) Thanks a lot for sending further logs that ... [...] > > On _some_ machines, on the first install we get sector 32 and > reinstalling identically, we got sector 64. > [...] ... show this kind of behavior. I have commited a patc

Re: setup-storage + grub2

2010-11-02 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
[...] > > On _some_ machines, on the first install we get sector 32 and > reinstalling identically, we got sector 64. > > > > > Would you have logs of the installation of an afterwards failing > > system > > available? > > I'll send you them (sector 32) in private mail. > Thanks a lot! Coul

Re: setup-storage + grub2

2010-11-02 Diskussionsfäden Mathieu Alorent
Hi, Le vendredi 29 octobre 2010 à 13:32 +0200, Michael Tautschnig a écrit : > Could you please clarify that last sentence: Does that mean, that if > using the > very same install client, same FAI version, etc. and install multiple > times, you > will sometimes get sector 32 and at other times sect

Re: setup-storage + grub2

2010-10-29 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
Hi Mathieu, > Hello, > > Le mardi 13 avril 2010 à 11:09 +0200, Michael Tautschnig a écrit : > > Could you give 3.4~beta1+experimental5 another chance? If you redo the > > partitioning using this version, you'll get back the > > first-partition-starts-at-sector-63 free space. > > I'm reopening a

Re: setup-storage + grub2

2010-10-28 Diskussionsfäden Mathieu Alorent
Hello, Le mardi 13 avril 2010 à 11:09 +0200, Michael Tautschnig a écrit : > Could you give 3.4~beta1+experimental5 another chance? If you redo the > partitioning using this version, you'll get back the > first-partition-starts-at-sector-63 free space. I'm reopening an old thread ! Sometimes, th

Re: setup-storage + grub2

2010-04-29 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
Hi Waldemar, [...] > > Yes, I can. The brackets around $grub_dev are wrong. device2grub > already prints out (hd0). > + $ROOTCMD /usr/sbin/grub-install --no-floppy --modules="biosdisk > part_msdos ext2 lvm raid" "($grub_dev)" > If that's the only remaining problem, then it should finally be w

Re: setup-storage + grub2

2010-04-29 Diskussionsfäden Waldemar Brodkorb
Hi, Michael Tautschnig wrote, > [...] > > > > > > > Could you give that one another try? > > > > Still no green blinking lights: > > = shell: GRUB_PC/10-setup = > > Can't open /target/boot/grub/device.map > > /usr/sbin/grub-setup: error: no mapping exists for `sda'. > > Generating g

Re: setup-storage + grub2

2010-04-28 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
[...] > > > > Could you give that one another try? > > Still no green blinking lights: > = shell: GRUB_PC/10-setup = > Can't open /target/boot/grub/device.map > /usr/sbin/grub-setup: error: no mapping exists for `sda'. > Generating grub.cfg ... > Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.

Re: setup-storage + grub2

2010-04-28 Diskussionsfäden Waldemar Brodkorb
Hi Michael, Michael Tautschnig wrote, > Hi Waldemar, > > [...] > > > > > > AFAIK grub-install takes care of a lot of things and just takes a device > > > name as > > > argument, if you omit the parentheses!? It could be necessary to re-add > > > the > > > grub-mkimage, if update-grub chokes o

Re: setup-storage + grub2

2010-04-28 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
Hi Waldemar, [...] > > > AFAIK grub-install takes care of a lot of things and just takes a device > > name as > > argument, if you omit the parentheses!? It could be necessary to re-add the > > grub-mkimage, if update-grub chokes on that one. > > Still failing. Only thing that works is either:

Re: setup-storage + grub2

2010-04-22 Diskussionsfäden Andreas Heinlein
Am 16.04.2010 11:00, schrieb Mathieu Alorent: > Le jeudi 15 avril 2010 à 15:42 +0200, Michael Tautschnig a écrit : > > Use of uninitialized value $fs in substitution (s///) > >> at /usr/share/fai/setup-storage//Volumes.pm line 257. >> >> Could you please ret

Re: setup-storage + grub2

2010-04-22 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Neumann
...errr. I really should pay more attention to the subject the subject, right? Sorry for the noise. You are talking about grub v2.

Re: setup-storage + grub2

2010-04-22 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Neumann
hiya Could you and/or Michael give me a short summary, what you are trying to achieve? I was busy and lost the track. I'm successfully using FAI + LVM + grub (v1) but I'm not sure if this is relevant to your problems or whether you are trying something else. LVM-Layouts in use: part1 = / part2

Re: setup-storage + grub2

2010-04-21 Diskussionsfäden Waldemar Brodkorb
Hi, Michael Tautschnig wrote, > > Hi, > > Michael Tautschnig wrote, > > > > > No, using the underlying partitions doesn't really make sense, that would > > > destroy LVM volume integrity. But according to some online docs it's > > > pretty > > > simple: Just strip off the /dev/mapper/ part. > >

Re: setup-storage + grub2

2010-04-21 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
> Hi, > Michael Tautschnig wrote, > > > No, using the underlying partitions doesn't really make sense, that would > > destroy LVM volume integrity. But according to some online docs it's pretty > > simple: Just strip off the /dev/mapper/ part. > > > > I've updated the scripts in 3.4~beta1+experim

Re: setup-storage + grub2

2010-04-20 Diskussionsfäden Waldemar Brodkorb
Hi, Michael Tautschnig wrote, > No, using the underlying partitions doesn't really make sense, that would > destroy LVM volume integrity. But according to some online docs it's pretty > simple: Just strip off the /dev/mapper/ part. > > I've updated the scripts in 3.4~beta1+experimental8; could yo

Re: setup-storage + grub2

2010-04-16 Diskussionsfäden Mathieu Alorent
Le jeudi 15 avril 2010 à 15:42 +0200, Michael Tautschnig a écrit : > > > > Use of uninitialized value $fs in substitution (s///) > at /usr/share/fai/setup-storage//Volumes.pm line 257. > > > > > Could you please retry using version 3.4~beta1+experimental8? I hope > to have > fixed those issues.

Re: setup-storage + grub2

2010-04-15 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
[...] > > > > From some earlier post I gathered that biosdisk part_msdos ext2 were > > auto-detected anyway and not necessary. Could somebody check whether they > > are > > necessary are not? > > I checked again, they are really necessary. At least for > Ubuntu/Lucid with with grub 1.98. Withou

Re: setup-storage + grub2

2010-04-15 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
[...] > > > > > I also get a bunch messages about uninitialized value > > > > > > Calling task_partition > > > Partitioning local harddisks using setup-storage > > > Starting setup-storage 1.2.1+exp > > > Using config file: /var/lib/fai/config/disk_config/DEFAULT > > > Executing: parted -s /dev/

Re: setup-storage + grub2

2010-04-13 Diskussionsfäden Waldemar Brodkorb
Hi Michael, Michael Tautschnig wrote, > > Hi, > > Adrian von Bidder wrote, > > > > > Issues confirmed, and I've reported these twice on this list already. > > > > > > I just switched to LILO, works for me. > > > > I think the patch in the experimental tree does not work as > > expected. To boot

Re: setup-storage + grub2

2010-04-13 Diskussionsfäden Mathieu Alorent
Le mardi 13 avril 2010 à 19:56 +0200, Mathieu Alorent a écrit : > > > ? Maybe the format has changed, so probably also parted -v would be > useful. I forgot to say, this is an Ubuntu Lucid nfsroot. # parted -v parted (GNU parted) 2.2 Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPL

Re: setup-storage + grub2

2010-04-13 Diskussionsfäden Mathieu Alorent
Le mardi 13 avril 2010 à 11:09 +0200, Michael Tautschnig a écrit : > > Hi, Hi [...] > > Could you give 3.4~beta1+experimental5 another chance? If you redo the > partitioning using this version, you'll get back the > first-partition-starts-at-sector-63 free space. No problem with "first-partition

Re: setup-storage + grub2

2010-04-13 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
> Hi, > > I'm in trouble with setup-storage and installing Grub2. > > The error I get is: > > Performing GRUB install with command: > /usr/sbin/grub-install --no-floppy --root-directory=/target /dev/sda > /usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: This msdos-style partition label has no post-MBR > gap; embedd

Re: setup-storage + grub2

2010-04-13 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
> Hi, > Adrian von Bidder wrote, > > > Issues confirmed, and I've reported these twice on this list already. > > > > I just switched to LILO, works for me. > > I think the patch in the experimental tree does not work as > expected. To boot from LVM boot volume I changed the script to > following

Re: setup-storage + grub2

2010-04-12 Diskussionsfäden Waldemar Brodkorb
Hi, Adrian von Bidder wrote, > Issues confirmed, and I've reported these twice on this list already. > > I just switched to LILO, works for me. I think the patch in the experimental tree does not work as expected. To boot from LVM boot volume I changed the script to following: error=0 ; trap "e

Re: setup-storage + grub2

2010-04-12 Diskussionsfäden Adrian von Bidder
Issues confirmed, and I've reported these twice on this list already. I just switched to LILO, works for me. cheers -- vbi On Monday 12 April 2010 11.32:49 Mathieu Alorent wrote: > Hi, > > I'm in trouble with setup-storage and installing Grub2. > > The error I get is: > > Performing GRUB inst

setup-storage + grub2

2010-04-12 Diskussionsfäden Mathieu Alorent
Hi, I'm in trouble with setup-storage and installing Grub2. The error I get is: Performing GRUB install with command: /usr/sbin/grub-install --no-floppy --root-directory=/target /dev/sda /usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: This msdos-style partition label has no post-MBR gap; embedding won't be possibl