Bug#540125: grub-pc: upgrade renders system unbootable
2009/8/26 Michal Suchanek hramr...@centrum.cz: 2009/8/26 Robert Millan r...@aybabtu.com: On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 10:24:57AM +1000, Jayen wrote: Package: grub-pc Version: 1.96+20090725-1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system I know On i386-pc (and amd64), the grub package never updates the installed version of GRUB automatically. However, this has rendered the system unbootable for me twice now. I know I'm running something unstable, but users should NOT be expected to know how to fix an unbootable system. There should at least be a debconf question of whether to run grub-install. The error I'm getting is Unknown command: initrd similar to #513592 and #497791 (and probably others). What happens if you comment out the search commands? (all of them) And if you add insmod linux at the beginning of grub.cfg? Neither helps. You have to load kernel first. I tried loading the kernel by hand which sort of works but then I do not get the 'boot' command so I cannot start it. With grub rescue CD I managed to do this so I suspect there is something deficient in the on-disk installation of grub. With a newer grub (1.96+20090808-1) I can at least load the kernel manually as I could with the rescue CD. The menu still fails to boot with the same message, though. Thanks Michal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#540125: grub-pc: upgrade renders system unbootable
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 03:05:04PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: 2009/8/26 Michal Suchanek hramr...@centrum.cz: 2009/8/26 Robert Millan r...@aybabtu.com: On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 10:24:57AM +1000, Jayen wrote: Package: grub-pc Version: 1.96+20090725-1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system I know On i386-pc (and amd64), the grub package never updates the installed version of GRUB automatically. However, this has rendered the system unbootable for me twice now. I know I'm running something unstable, but users should NOT be expected to know how to fix an unbootable system. There should at least be a debconf question of whether to run grub-install. The error I'm getting is Unknown command: initrd similar to #513592 and #497791 (and probably others). What happens if you comment out the search commands? (all of them) And if you add insmod linux at the beginning of grub.cfg? Neither helps. You have to load kernel first. I tried loading the kernel by hand which sort of works but then I do not get the 'boot' command so I cannot start it. With grub rescue CD I managed to do this so I suspect there is something deficient in the on-disk installation of grub. With a newer grub (1.96+20090808-1) I can at least load the kernel manually as I could with the rescue CD. The menu still fails to boot with the same message, though. Please try with 1.96+20090826-3 -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#540125: grub-pc: upgrade renders system unbootable
2009/8/26 Robert Millan r...@aybabtu.com: On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 10:24:57AM +1000, Jayen wrote: Package: grub-pc Version: 1.96+20090725-1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system I know On i386-pc (and amd64), the grub package never updates the installed version of GRUB automatically. However, this has rendered the system unbootable for me twice now. I know I'm running something unstable, but users should NOT be expected to know how to fix an unbootable system. There should at least be a debconf question of whether to run grub-install. The error I'm getting is Unknown command: initrd similar to #513592 and #497791 (and probably others). What happens if you comment out the search commands? (all of them) And if you add insmod linux at the beginning of grub.cfg? Neither helps. You have to load kernel first. I tried loading the kernel by hand which sort of works but then I do not get the 'boot' command so I cannot start it. With grub rescue CD I managed to do this so I suspect there is something deficient in the on-disk installation of grub. Thanks Michal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#540125: grub-pc: upgrade renders system unbootable
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 10:24:57AM +1000, Jayen wrote: Package: grub-pc Version: 1.96+20090725-1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system I know On i386-pc (and amd64), the grub package never updates the installed version of GRUB automatically. However, this has rendered the system unbootable for me twice now. I know I'm running something unstable, but users should NOT be expected to know how to fix an unbootable system. There should at least be a debconf question of whether to run grub-install. The error I'm getting is Unknown command: initrd similar to #513592 and #497791 (and probably others). What happens if you comment out the search commands? (all of them) And if you add insmod linux at the beginning of grub.cfg? -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#540125: grub-pc: upgrade renders system unbootable
hrm. you are quite right. i'm pretty sure i had set debconf to re-ask old questions, but apparently not. dpkg-reconfigure debconf doesn't give me this option, and i'm really sure it used to. i'll file a bug against debconf in that case. sorry for your troubles. thanks for your help. --jayen - Original Message From: Felix Zielcke fziel...@z-51.de To: 540...@bugs.debian.org Cc: Jayen j...@yahoo.com Sent: Thursday, 6 August, 2009 4:12:08 PM Subject: Re: Bug#540125: grub-pc: upgrade renders system unbootable Am Donnerstag, den 06.08.2009, 07:57 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: Am Donnerstag, den 06.08.2009, 10:24 +1000 schrieb Jayen: Package: grub-pc Version: 1.96+20090725-1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system I know On i386-pc (and amd64), the grub package never updates the installed version of GRUB automatically. However, this has rendered the system unbootable for me twice now. I know I'm running something unstable, but users should NOT be expected to know how to fix an unbootable system. There should at least be a debconf question of whether to run grub-install. The error I'm getting is Unknown command: initrd similar to #513592 and #497791 (and probably others). Uhm we have already a debconf prompt for running grub-install. Currently it gets shown when core.img exists and the package is upgraded. But in SVN we changed it now that it gets shown when there are no grub-legacy files in /boot/grub and core.img exists, i.e. no check if the package gets upgraded. Try dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc that should show the debconf prompt. I just tried it now out again with current sid/squeeze version. debconf prompts are by design shown only once, so maybe it was shown and you didn't notice this. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer __ Find local businesses and services in your area with Yahoo!7 Local. Get started: http://local.yahoo.com.au -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#540125: grub-pc: upgrade renders system unbootable
Am Donnerstag, den 06.08.2009, 10:24 +1000 schrieb Jayen: Package: grub-pc Version: 1.96+20090725-1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system I know On i386-pc (and amd64), the grub package never updates the installed version of GRUB automatically. However, this has rendered the system unbootable for me twice now. I know I'm running something unstable, but users should NOT be expected to know how to fix an unbootable system. There should at least be a debconf question of whether to run grub-install. The error I'm getting is Unknown command: initrd similar to #513592 and #497791 (and probably others). Uhm we have already a debconf prompt for running grub-install. Currently it gets shown when core.img exists and the package is upgraded. But in SVN we changed it now that it gets shown when there are no grub-legacy files in /boot/grub and core.img exists, i.e. no check if the package gets upgraded. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#540125: grub-pc: upgrade renders system unbootable
Am Donnerstag, den 06.08.2009, 07:57 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: Am Donnerstag, den 06.08.2009, 10:24 +1000 schrieb Jayen: Package: grub-pc Version: 1.96+20090725-1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system I know On i386-pc (and amd64), the grub package never updates the installed version of GRUB automatically. However, this has rendered the system unbootable for me twice now. I know I'm running something unstable, but users should NOT be expected to know how to fix an unbootable system. There should at least be a debconf question of whether to run grub-install. The error I'm getting is Unknown command: initrd similar to #513592 and #497791 (and probably others). Uhm we have already a debconf prompt for running grub-install. Currently it gets shown when core.img exists and the package is upgraded. But in SVN we changed it now that it gets shown when there are no grub-legacy files in /boot/grub and core.img exists, i.e. no check if the package gets upgraded. Try dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc that should show the debconf prompt. I just tried it now out again with current sid/squeeze version. debconf prompts are by design shown only once, so maybe it was shown and you didn't notice this. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#540125: grub-pc: upgrade renders system unbootable
Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.96+20090725-1
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
I know On i386-pc (and amd64), the grub package never updates the installed
version of GRUB automatically. However, this has rendered the system
unbootable for me twice now. I know I'm running something unstable, but users
should NOT be expected to know how to fix an unbootable system. There should
at least be a debconf question of whether to run grub-install.
The error I'm getting is Unknown command: initrd similar to #513592 and
#497791 (and probably others).
--Jayen
-- Package-specific info:
*** BEGIN /proc/mounts
/dev/disk/by-uuid/ab5d8c7a-80a8-4241-a80b-28496df577d4 / ext3
rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/ab5d8c7a-80a8-4241-a80b-28496df577d4 /home/jayen/pkg/32/home
ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/ab5d8c7a-80a8-4241-a80b-28496df577d4 /home/jayen/pkg/32/tmp
ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0
*** END /proc/mounts
*** BEGIN /boot/grub/device.map
(hd0) /dev/sda
*** 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 ###
set default=0
set timeout=5
set root=(hd0,5)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set ab5d8c7a-80a8-4241-a80b-28496df577d4
if loadfont /usr/share/grub/ascii.pf2 ; then
set gfxmode=640x480
insmod gfxterm
insmod vbe
if terminal_output.gfxterm ; then true ; else
# For backward compatibility with versions of terminal.mod that don't
# understand terminal_output
terminal gfxterm
fi
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set root=(hd0,5)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set ab5d8c7a-80a8-4241-a80b-28496df577d4
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, Linux 2.6.29-2-amd64 {
set root=(hd0,5)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set ab5d8c7a-80a8-4241-a80b-28496df577d4
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.29-2-amd64
root=UUID=ab5d8c7a-80a8-4241-a80b-28496df577d4 ro quiet
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.29-2-amd64
}
menuentry Debian GNU/Linux, Linux 2.6.29-2-amd64 (recovery mode) {
set root=(hd0,5)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set ab5d8c7a-80a8-4241-a80b-28496df577d4
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.29-2-amd64
root=UUID=ab5d8c7a-80a8-4241-a80b-28496df577d4 ro single quiet
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.29-2-amd64
}
menuentry Debian GNU/Linux, Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 {
set root=(hd0,5)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set ab5d8c7a-80a8-4241-a80b-28496df577d4
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-amd64
root=UUID=ab5d8c7a-80a8-4241-a80b-28496df577d4 ro quiet
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-amd64
}
menuentry Debian GNU/Linux, Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (recovery mode) {
set root=(hd0,5)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set ab5d8c7a-80a8-4241-a80b-28496df577d4
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-amd64
root=UUID=ab5d8c7a-80a8-4241-a80b-28496df577d4 ro single quiet
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-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 ###
*** END /boot/grub/grub.cfg
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (980, 'testing'), (960, 'stable'), (900, 'unstable'), (800,
'experimental'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0]1.5.27 Debian configuration management sy
ii grub-common 1.96+20090725-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version
ii libc62.9-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii ucf 3.0018 Update Configuration File: preserv
grub-pc recommends no packages.
Versions of packages grub-pc suggests:
pn desktop-base none (no description available)
ii genisoimage 9:1.1.9-1 Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem
ii os-prober 1.28 utility to detect other OSes on a
-- debconf information:
* grub-pc/linux_cmdline:
* grub-pc/chainload_from_menu.lst: false
grub-pc/install_devices:
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