Hello, I post a bug report here as asked by nyu on #grub.
=== IRC LOG === [13:32] <nyu> nebuchadnezzar: could you report the grub one first? the problem is grub_biosdisk_get_diskinfo_standard() fails, but this call wasn't used when probing for drives (and I think it should be) === IRC LOG === I have a kvm machine featuring debian lenny (now upgraded to sid). It has only one disk configured, with one partition as LVM so I install grub2 1.96+20080724-7. When booting I have the following error: === error: unknown drive hd15 Entering rescue mode... === This does not come from the configuration, I renamed grub.cfg and the same happens. Nyu ask me to remove the grub_error call line 53: grub_error (GRUB_ERR_BAD_DEVICE, "unknown device %s", name); Then it gives me "error: no such disk". In rescue mode: - I can insmod normal and enter in normal mode to boot my system. - ls gives me (lenny-var) (lenny-usr) (lenny-root) (lenny-boot) (hd0) (hd0,1) (hd1) (hd2)...(hd15) The problem happens only when using the kvm -drive option: sudo /usr/bin/kvm -M pc -m 256 -smp 1 -name lenny -monitor stdio \ -boot c -drive file=/dev/hati/lenny,if=virtio,index=0,boot=on \ -net nic,model=virtio,vlan=0 -net tap,vlan=0,ifname=vnet0 \ -serial pty -parallel none -k fr Replacing this by -hda makes it work: sudo /usr/bin/kvm -M pc -m 256 -smp 1 -name lenny -monitor stdio \ -boot c -hda dev/hati/lenny \ -net nic,model=virtio,vlan=0 -net tap,vlan=0,ifname=vnet0 \ -serial pty -parallel none -k fr I provide the grub.cfg as attachement, I can provide lspci, dmesg or what ever you need. Regards. -- Daniel Dehennin Récupérer ma clef GPG: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0x6A2540D1
# # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE # # It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/update-grub using templates # from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub # ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ### set default=0 set timeout=5 insmod lvm set root=(lenny-usr) search --fs-uuid --set b67ea215-b6ec-40cc-bfe8-56e1284a42c8 if font /share/grub/ascii.pff ; then set gfxmode=640x480 insmod gfxterm insmod vbe terminal gfxterm fi ### 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_hurd ### ### END /etc/grub.d/10_hurd ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ### insmod lvm set root=(lenny-boot) search --fs-uuid --set 5b03d02f-e69e-418d-8f03-b0eb4e3185de menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.25-2-amd64" { linux /vmlinuz-2.6.25-2-amd64 root=/dev/mapper/lenny-root ro vga=0x318 initrd /initrd.img-2.6.25-2-amd64 } menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.25-2-amd64 (single-user mode)" { linux /vmlinuz-2.6.25-2-amd64 root=/dev/mapper/lenny-root ro single initrd /initrd.img-2.6.25-2-amd64 } ### 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 is an example on how to add custom entries ### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
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