Package: grub-pc Version: 1.98+20100710-1 Severity: important Hi,
I spent a couple of days trying to figure what was wrong but I don't seem to make any bit progress. I have a number of symptoms that seem to point to grub not finding the root partition where grub is installed on my HD. 1. Grub stops at "Welcome to Grub", nothing happens from there. 2. using the ata disk module I also get a nice "no device connected" error I just have a plain primary partition with an ext3 filesystem, the chipset is Intel SCH. I tried both 20100710 and 20100722, both have the same behaviour. I'm trying to recompile 1.98-1 which seems the last one I had working (looking at dpkg.log). Unfortunately rebuilding the package seems to enter a loop and builds the sources over and over without ever building the packages. For now I'm running with grub-legacy chain-loading grub2 and I'm looking for how to further debug the issue. P.S.: grub-legacy's grub-install is not quite happy with that hd0,msdos1 partition, had to install that manually from grub shell. Thanks Mattia -- Package-specific info: *********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts /dev/root / ext3 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0 /dev/sda3 /home ext3 rw,relatime,errors=continue,data=ordered 0 0 *********************** END /proc/mounts *********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/device.map (hd0) /dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_MMCRE28GFMXP-MVB_DCF4100943SE943B8181 *********************** END /boot/grub/device.map *********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/grub.cfg # # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE # # It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates # from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub # ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ### if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then load_env fi set default="0" if [ "${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="${chosen}" save_env saved_entry fi } function load_video { insmod vbe insmod vga insmod video_bochs insmod video_cirrus } insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 set root='(hd0,msdos1)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 780abb45-b1a8-4669-9504-7dc34a2b8812 if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then set gfxmode=640x480 load_video insmod gfxterm fi if terminal_output gfxterm ; then true ; else # For backward compatibility with versions of terminal.mod that don't # understand terminal_output terminal gfxterm fi insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 set root='(hd0,msdos1)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 780abb45-b1a8-4669-9504-7dc34a2b8812 set locale_dir=($root)/boot/grub/locale set lang=en insmod gettext set timeout=5 ### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ### insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 set root='(hd0,msdos1)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 780abb45-b1a8-4669-9504-7dc34a2b8812 insmod png if background_image /boot/grub/moreblue-orbit-grub.png ; then set color_normal=black/black set color_highlight=magenta/black else set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue set menu_color_highlight=white/blue fi ### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ### menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.35-rc4+' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 set root='(hd0,msdos1)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 780abb45-b1a8-4669-9504-7dc34a2b8812 echo 'Loading Linux 2.6.35-rc4+ ...' linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-rc4+ root=UUID=780abb45-b1a8-4669-9504-7dc34a2b8812 ro mem=2000MB echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...' initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-rc4+ } menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.35-rc4+.old' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 set root='(hd0,msdos1)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 780abb45-b1a8-4669-9504-7dc34a2b8812 echo 'Loading Linux 2.6.35-rc4+.old ...' linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-rc4+.old root=UUID=780abb45-b1a8-4669-9504-7dc34a2b8812 ro mem=2000MB echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...' initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-rc4+ } menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 set root='(hd0,msdos1)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 780abb45-b1a8-4669-9504-7dc34a2b8812 echo 'Loading Linux 2.6.32 ...' linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32 root=/dev/sda1 ro mem=2000MB } ### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ### ### END /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ### ### 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'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages grub-pc depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.32 Debian configuration management sy ii grub-common 1.98+20100710-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.48-2 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use ii ucf 3.0025 Update Configuration File: preserv grub-pc recommends no packages. Versions of packages grub-pc suggests: ii desktop-base 5.0.5 common files for the Debian Deskto -- debconf information: grub-pc/kopt_extracted: false grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline: grub2/device_map_regenerated: * grub-pc/install_devices: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_MMCRE28GFMXP-MVB_DCF4100943SE943B8181 grub-pc/postrm_purge_boot_grub: false grub-pc/install_devices_failed_upgrade: true grub-pc/disk_description: * grub2/linux_cmdline: mem=2000MB grub-pc/install_devices_empty: false grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline_default: quiet grub-pc/partition_description: grub-pc/install_devices_failed: false grub-pc/install_devices_disks_changed: * grub2/linux_cmdline_default: grub-pc/chainload_from_menu.lst: true grub-pc/mixed_legacy_and_grub2: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org