Bug#586735: grub-pc: external hdd boots on one system but not on the other
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
phcoder at gmail.com
Mon Jun 28 09:33:54 UTC 2010
On 06/22/2010 04:15 AM, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:
> 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.
>
>
Could it be the case of https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?27720 or
http://grub.enbug.org/BIOSBugs ?
> 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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--
Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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