I'm writing to this address since I'm not sure what else to do. I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T60P which until this evening happily ran Debian testing, with two kernels available at the boot-menu: a version of 2.6.29 with the rt patches applied, compiled with the Debian kernel tools, and one stock Debian kernel (2.6.26).
The machine was set up in a maximally simple way. Debian is the only OS that has ever been on it (I bought it as one of the `linux-ready' laptops from Lenovo and installed Debian as soon as it arrived); it has always worked beautifully. Upon a recent routine upgrade (against current testing), I read the debconf messages about the transition from grub-legacy to grub2, and thought that I should try grub2 as I was encouraged to do. I installed the package from today's testing (Monday August 3rd). On the first reboot, I selected Chainload into GRUB 2 The reboot went completely fine. I read everything in /usr/share/doc/grub2. Since the reboot went OK, I ran: upgrade-from-grub-legacy as root, and it completed without error, reporting that it had created grub.cfg, that it had found two kernel images in /boot and two initrd images in /boot. However, when I tried to reboot again, the process got only this far: GRUB Loading stage 1.5 GRUB loading, please wait ... Error 15 And the system is unusable (Ctl-Alt-Delete brings me back to the same point). I understand that Error 15 normally or often means that Grub is looking in the wrong device for the files that it needs in order to progress on to stage 2 of the boot process, but I don't understand why grub-legacy was able to do this without every having any difficulty while grub2 is not, and I don't understand why the upgrade script wouldn't have ensured that if grub-legacy could find the necessary files, then grub2 would also find them. I used a Debian netinstall CD in rescue mode to get back into the system, re-ran upgrade-from-grub-legacy, and checked various files in /boot/grub. I've run the grub command-line in an attempt to fix the thing manually. I have tried purging grub-pc and reinstalling grub-legacy (using the installation CD as a rescue-disk) but the system still will not boot past Error 15. In fact I've tried everything I can think of and my T60P which was such a fine machine until this attempted upgrade is still totally bricked. If I had to guess, I would stay that the difficulty centers on the fact that the laptop uses LVM, but again, grub-legacy had no difficulty coping with this. I would really appreciate hearing whatever advice might be available and I will be happy to try to test fixes and post results and so on. Thank you, Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
