[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
This is still an issue in Oneiric. Here is my case: * a computer with two hard-drives. One of the MBR of these is used to bottup normally * I introduced a USB stick with Kubuntu 11.04, booted from USB, and upgraded to Oneiric (11.10) After the upgrade, the MBR in the HD of the desktop computer was now damaged, it would no longer boot from HD The fix was, as usual, to boot the HD partition from the USB's Grub, and then run grub-install /dev/sdX , where X was the appropriate value (either a or b). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 Title: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/496435/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
Colin: do my logs shed any light? Let me point out that updates to grub during the life of the distro did not ruin the MBR. It has only (and consistently) happened when upgrading to a newer distro version. With that in mind. Why don't we ask the user for confirmation before writing to the MBR? Would that be feasible? It seems to me like such a critical step would merit an extra click Thanks Leo -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 Title: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
Leo: Exactly how many user level people will understand a disk ordering other than what they see in their BIOS boot display, assuming they actually watch that display? If a user has only one disk, or had no two disks the same size, they might be able to figure out that BIOS disk 0 is /dev/sdc to grub, but, if they have two or more disks of the same size (common with machines having 250G and 1TB disks for some reason) they cannot identify which one _should_ really boot because grub tosses 3 coins and counts the number of heads at each boot when it chooses which like sized device goes first. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 Title: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
Frank and Leo, could you post the output of 'sudo debconf-show grub-pc', plus /var/log/installer/syslog and /var/log/installer/partman? I suspect that at some point something (perhaps the installer) recorded the wrong disk as the installation target, and that got preserved. seasoned_geek: please give it a rest. There are many ways to constructively get our attention on a problem; harping on and on about the same misunderstanding is not one of them. BIOS ordering is a red herring. Please stop abusing us about it on this bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 Title: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
Colin: BIOS ordering is NOT a Red Herring. I'm not abusing you, I'm attempting to educate you since there appears to be a shocking amount of ignorance on the issue. FeeDOS, Windows, OpenDOS, PC DOS 2000, and OS/2 all do BIOS ordering and do it correctly. When your user base has a second OS installed, what are the odds it is on this list? Better question. Why does the grup in OpenSUSE 11.4 respect BIOS ordering and the one with Ubuntu does not? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 Title: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
The thing that's needed is consistency, not agreement with BIOS ordering. The necessary property can be expressed quite simply: once you choose to install GRUB to a given disk on installing the OS, upgraded versions should be installed to that disk again on upgrades. BIOS ordering does nothing to help with this since it can be changed in BIOS Setup menus. We achieve consistency nowadays by recording the by-id links for disks rather than any other one of the possible names: the by-id links encode properties such as the serial number of the disk. In cases where this goes wrong on upgrade, it is typically because the disk device name was mis-recorded somehow; sometimes it's user error, but I certainly wouldn't rule out the possibility of further bugs in GRUB's debconf integration, or installer bugs whose effects hang around even after they'd been fixed. If you could stop going on about BIOS ordering any time somebody brings up a problem, I might be able to have a coherent conversation with bug reporters to find out why! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 Title: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
The thing which is needed is agreement with the BIOS because ONLY THAT CAN PROVIDE CONSISTENCY WITH THE OTHER OPERATING SYSTEMS. They ALL respect the BIOS, even the boot order changes done in PROM or at boot time via a hot key. Claiming BIOS ordering is irrelevant is simply demonstrating a complete lack of knowledge regarding the booting of every other PC based OS. If you could actually learn about BIOS ordering you wouldn't need further conversation on this issue because you would actually FIX the problem. By ignoring the BIOS drive ordering, if you magically happen to cobble together something which gets the boot drive and partition correct (so far, not a big worry), you reek havoc on the other operating systems. Most people who run multiple operating systems keep spare FAT-16 and/or FAT-32 partitions around lying around for data transfer. These partitions typically appear before their removable devices and appear in a BIOS predictable order. When you try to magic-magic behind the scenes, this changes the drive mapping order and their boot scripts, which worked perfect prior to the installation of Ubuntu-grub, no longer work. It is obviously not impossible to honor the BIOS mapping at boot time since it appears the boys and girls working on OpenSuSE 11.4 managed to do it. FreeDOS boots and works like it should. The FAT-32 transfer partitions all are mapped correctly, and yes, my BIOS selects the drive it boots from. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 Title: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
There are a number of inaccuracies in this comment, but there's no point discussing this further with somebody who clearly isn't interested in hearing what we have to say. I'm not prepared to spend any more time explaining how GRUB works in this bug report. Please allow us to debug user problems in our own way; you have already said you're using another OS now. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 Title: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
My statements were and are completely accurate. I'm using a different OS because this problem has existed for YEARS in the Ubuntu distribution and I could no longer function with a single disk computer. Ubuntu is the ONLY Linux distro having this problem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 Title: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
Hi Colin, I am attaching the required info. Apparently I can only add one at a time. Thank you so much for looking into this. Cheers! Leo ** Attachment added: sudo debconf-show grub-pc grub-pc.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/496435/+attachment/2110796/+files/grub-pc.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 Title: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
** Attachment added: sudo cat /var/log/installer/partman partman.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/496435/+attachment/2110797/+files/partman.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 Title: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
** Attachment added: sudo cat /var/log/installer/syslog syslog.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/496435/+attachment/2110798/+files/syslog.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 Title: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
** Attachment added: df -h df-h.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/496435/+attachment/2110800/+files/df-h.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 Title: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
** Attachment added: sudo blkid blkid.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/496435/+attachment/2110801/+files/blkid.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 Title: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
Ok, I added all the info, I hope it helps. I took the liberty to add a couple more useful outputs. My computer boots from /dev/sdb , but I always keep a grub in /dev/sda just in case. Both of them failed to load grub after the upgrade (I only run grub-install /dev/sda every once in a while, I only do it since I started hitting this bug). I have been running Kubuntu for ... 2 years now on this computer? So there are several layers of upgrades, and there is certainly the possibility that an old setting is bothering things, as Colin stated. @ Frank: I showed the commands I ran on the command line to generate teh attachments, in case it helps. @seasoned_geek: please note that this is not a forum where users exchange _opinions_, but rather a bug tracker. Even when you are trying to help, you are introducing noise, which actually hurts the chances of getting things fixed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 Title: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
I noticed a reference to a third partition in the grub-pc output: grub-pc/install_devices: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1001FALS-00J7B1_WD- WMATV1484210-part3 Does this mean that the upgrade is trying to install grub on a partition instead of the MBR? But, assuming that's the case, why does the old grub in the MBR stop working? (I have an older version of Kubuntu in another partition, and grub doesn't even show me that) Oh well, I hope I gave enough info to shed some light. Thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 Title: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
Leo: I'm not introducing opinions. I have introduced facts which have been completely ignored by support because it doesn't fit their opinion of how things should work. Ubuntu is the _only_ distro with this problem. Every other distro acknowledged the facts. Here we have erroneous opinions claiming to provide support. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 Title: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
I got this problem on upgrade to 10.10 and then again on 11.04. I was also concerned that when I booted from a usb stick then the stick was sda and my hard drive(I only have one...windows vista boot as well) was sdb so I didnt feel confident to do a grub install, so ended up creating a live dvd and did the install from that. Note that a grub install from 10.10 didnt work, had to do it from 11.04 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 Title: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
Same here. My desktop system with 2 sata hard drives just rendered itself unbootable after upgrading Kubuntu 10.10 - 11.04 As far as I can tell, Fix Released is not a proper characterization for this bug's status, and this is a CRITICAL bug. I really don't mean to flame, but we can't afford having people click on the A new distribution version is available button, only to get a black screen after booting, not to mention losing access to poprietary operating systems already installed Cheers! Leo -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 Title: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
I had to abandon Ubuntu for OpenSuSE 11.4 which doesn't have this issue. The root of the problem is that Ubuntu DOES NOT RESPECT BIOS ORDERING but just about everything else does. What Ubuntu appears to do is quite stupid, it appears to ASS-U-ME that your largest drive is your boot drive, rather than a data drive. When it encounters two or more largest drives of the same size, it appears to toss three coins and count the number of heads which came up, choosing that number as the current boot disk. grub currently only works on a single disk machine. If you need a stable machine you will have to switch to OpenSuSE 11.4, or some other distro. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 Title: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
To work around this (annoying) bug see [1], specifically Section 13 Reinstalling GRUB 2 from LiveCD [1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 Title: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
To work around this (annoying) bug see [1], specifically Section 13 Reinstalling GRUB 2 from LiveCD [1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 Title: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
I used update-manager to update from 10.04 to 10.10, and I got the infamous grub-xputs. I have two SATA disks and memory card reader. With 10.04, SATA disks were enumerated before memory card readers (sda, sdb then sdc, sde, sdd, sdf). With 10.10, memory card readers are enumerated before SATA disks (sda, sdb, sdc, sdd then sde, sdf). If I boot on a USB key, it's inserted between memory card reader and SATA disks (which become sdf, sdg). Previously, it was easier to guess enumeration order of mass memory (and to help other users). As I did many things, I'm not sure of what solves issue, but it seems it was when I booted on CD-ROM instead of USB key. I also set MBR on both disks! -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
Grub MUST MUST MUST MUST MUST support the BIOS device order. Why must Grub boot with Unix code? Why cannot Grub boot with whatever bootstrap IBM used with the boot manager they shipped with OS/2? That boot manager always respected device order AND it could boot any OS, including various Linux of the day...of course...if I remember correctly, that one used its own thin boot partition to work its magic. If the Unix bootstrap cannot directly communicate with the BIOS to determine device order and type, then, there is no reason to use the Unix bootstrap code, use code that actually works. On Tuesday, October 19, 2010 02:15:47 pm you wrote: I used update-manager to update from 10.04 to 10.10, and I got the infamous grub-xputs. I have two SATA disks and memory card reader. With 10.04, SATA disks were enumerated before memory card readers (sda, sdb then sdc, sde, sdd, sdf). With 10.10, memory card readers are enumerated before SATA disks (sda, sdb, sdc, sdd then sde, sdf). If I boot on a USB key, it's inserted between memory card reader and SATA disks (which become sdf, sdg). Previously, it was easier to guess enumeration order of mass memory (and to help other users). As I did many things, I'm not sure of what solves issue, but it seems it was when I booted on CD-ROM instead of USB key. I also set MBR on both disks! -- Roland Hughes, President Logikal Solutions http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com http://www.infiniteexposure.net No U.S. troops have ever lost their lives defending our ethanol reserves. -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
@Jordan - I technically have 2 drive controllers. One RAID controller exposing a single drive, and one PCI ATA-133 controller holding two optical drives. I'm not sure how this bug could be considered fixed if grub is still failing to identify the correct drive upon which it actually needs to install. That behavior would seem to inherently be required for this bug to be closed - and observation indicates that the behavior desired is not complete. However, I agree that the description doesn't match well (I just followed the dup). I'll continue follow-up in the newly unrelated bug report - #609280. :) -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
I encountered this bug today upgrading Kubuntu from a clean 10.04 install to 10.10 using the update-manager tool. The machine is 32-bit. It has no SATA controller at all. It's not a Dell (it's an older Asus- based dual athlon MP system). There is only one hard drive in the system. There is no other operating system on the machine; just one bootable partition which has Ubuntu installed. There were no errors during the install, except that a reboot left me hanging at error: the symbol 'grub_xputs' not found with a grub rescue prompt. The only odd thing about the drives in this system is that there are two DVD burners on the on-board ATA controller, there is one ATA-133 drive attached to a 3Ware 8-port IDE RAID controller (Escalade 7500-8), and I have /boot set up as a separate partition, with an LVM root. I came here due to bug #609280 being marked a dup of this one. I can run ls / at the prompt, and it shows that there is a grub/normal.mod file visible. However, when I try to insmod grub/normal.mod, I get the undefined symbol message from above. Did Canonical hire the former Gentoo quality assurance team? :) I upgraded two (single drive) laptops today as well, and they both had kernel problems post-reboot. And now this bug which has been open for a year? Really? Sigh, off to find the rescue disks. Lemme know if there's any further information I can contribute which helps fix this. Or any further poking upstream Debian with a stick I can do. -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
@Danny Sauer This bug has been fixed. And as you have only one hard drive it could not, by definition, have ever affected you. -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
Unless, in its infinite wisdom of not identifying devices in BIOS order, Grub also decided to identify devices as whatever type it chooses rather than what they are. It could have identified the RAID controller connected CD/DVD as a hard drive even though it wasn't and choose to try updating that MBR. For the record, FreeDOS still will not boot once KUbuntu is installed. I even cannibalized my machine down to one physical SATA drive and Grub STILL luggies up C: as far as FreeDOS is concerned siighh On Friday, October 15, 2010 06:32:00 pm you wrote: @Danny Sauer This bug has been fixed. And as you have only one hard drive it could not, by definition, have ever affected you. -- Roland Hughes, President Logikal Solutions http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com http://www.infiniteexposure.net No U.S. troops have ever lost their lives defending our ethanol reserves. -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
@Seasoned_geek Please re-read the bug description, this has nothing to do with how the BIOS orders devices. Additionally, it is impossible to reliably determine the BIOS's order from within linux which, among other reasons, is why grub2 instead identifies filesystems by UUID. -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
This bug has EVERYTHING to do with how the BIOS orders devices and how Grub just outright ignores that ordering despite the fact every other PC based OS can get that information from the BIOS and respect it. They can even honor the device order selected by the user from the boot menu. When Grub chooses the wrong *)()(*^ing drive as the boot drive, it updates the wrong MBR. We have had this discussion many many many times. The DOS emulator people can get it right. The wine people can get it right. FreeDOS can get it right and so can most other OSs. Grub chooses not to. On Friday, October 15, 2010 07:24:21 pm you wrote: @Seasoned_geek Please re-read the bug description, this has nothing to do with how the BIOS orders devices. Additionally, it is impossible to reliably determine the BIOS's order from within linux which, among other reasons, is why grub2 instead identifies filesystems by UUID. -- Roland Hughes, President Logikal Solutions http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com http://www.infiniteexposure.net No U.S. troops have ever lost their lives defending our ethanol reserves. -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
I hit the bug also, in Kubuntu AMD 64. However, I have only one hard drive. No RAID. Was able to use the LiveCD to chroot in and fix GRUB, but this bug, lasting this long..very disappointing. Blogged about it: http://linuxgrandma.blogspot.com/2010/10/grub2-and-chroots-dammit.html -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
I hit the bug upgrading from 10.10 from 10.04 running AMD 64. I have multiple SATAs and RAID, but only the one operating system. Very frustrating as I've left my USB key with xubuntu for such moments at work! So, in short, the bug still exists. Tim -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
** Tags added: iso-testing -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
Same here, it hit me when upgrading from Kubuntu 10.04 to 10.10beta, on an amd64 system with multiple sata drives. I had to boot from the live image and chroot. Shouldn't that part of a grub/system upgrade ask for user input, since this is SO critical? This is a killer for non-experts! -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
The problem is that Grub doesn't identify SATA drives in the same order as the BIOS. It is really easy to see if you have 3 SATA drives and each have different sizes. I have argued and argued and argued and argued, but I keep hitting a stone wall. FreeDOS and Windows both manage to identify hardware in the same order as the BIOS, they even honor BIOS overrides which change drive ordering, but Grubnot so much. On Sunday, September 12, 2010 09:57:49 am you wrote: Same here, it hit me when upgrading from Kubuntu 10.04 to 10.10beta, on an amd64 system with multiple sata drives. I had to boot from the live image and chroot. Shouldn't that part of a grub/system upgrade ask for user input, since this is SO critical? This is a killer for non-experts! -- Roland Hughes, President Logikal Solutions (630)-205-1593 http://www.logikalsolutions.com http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com http://www.infiniteexposure.net No U.S. soldiers have been deployed to defend our ethanol reserves. -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
Got the same issue using ubuntu-10.04.1-alternate-amd64.iso. I run a MD RAID for the root but have a small ext2 partition at the start of the first drive for /boot. Was the fix in 10.04? If it was then it did not work for me. I recovered by live booting a CD, installing mdadm, assembling the RAID, mounting all the partitions, chroot'ing into the fresh install and then running grub install (see: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2#Recover Grub 2 via LiveCD) -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
** Changed in: grub2 (Debian) Status: New = Fix Released -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
The problem is that Grub does not respect the BIOS ordering, which means it doesn't play with Windows, FreeDOS, DR DOS, or any other OS that does respect BIOS ordering for multi-drive systems. On Thursday, May 06, 2010 10:45:28 pm you wrote: Bump. I can attest that this symptom is present in release Lucid. I performed an over-the-wire upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04. On reboot, got the symbol `grub_puts_' not found error. Interestingly, although there are two SATA HDs in this machine (one spinning media, one solid-state), the BIOS enumerates the SSD first, the BIOS boots off the SSD, the grub rescue mode enumerates the SDD as (hd0), and the 2.6.32-22 boot files are at (hd0,1)/boot. When the upgrade was running, /dev/sda was the SDD. I don't find any way that the grub install/setup during the upgrade could have become confused about which drive was supposed to get grub installed on it, nor any evidence that the drive enumeration would have changed. (The spinning disk, sdb, a.k.a. (hd1), has my 5.somtething - 9.04 repeatedly over-the-wire upgraded image and files, which is still attached since I'm not convinced I have all my settings transferred over...) (time passes) Huh. Booting from the spinning disk gets a grub2 style menu that can boot into 10.04 on sda. Now how do I fix it so grub's in the right MBR? (time passes) Trying sudo grub-install --root-directory=/ /dev/sda as per http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1014708 , linked by Jack Fariss (#14). Reboot. Change BIOS boot order to boot the SDD (sda, hd0) first again. Reboot. Success! So, for no apparent reason the 10.04 upgrade seems to have pushed grub onto the MBR of 10.04 or possibly the lingering 9.04 grub on sdb's MBR was able to find the 10.04 images and boot them. Either way... -- Roland Hughes, President Logikal Solutions (630)-205-1593 http://www.logikalsolutions.com http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com http://www.infiniteexposure.net -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
I installed GRUB 2 already in Karmic. There where several kernel updates, which implied a GRUB menu update. there was never a problem. But the update from 9.10 to 10.4 and a reboot produced the error symbol `grub_puts_' not found. There are an IDE and a SATA harddisk neither sudo grub-install /dev/sdb nor sudo grub-install /dev/sda helped but changing the boot order in the BIOS helped -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
Bump. I can attest that this symptom is present in release Lucid. I performed an over-the-wire upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04. On reboot, got the symbol `grub_puts_' not found error. Interestingly, although there are two SATA HDs in this machine (one spinning media, one solid-state), the BIOS enumerates the SSD first, the BIOS boots off the SSD, the grub rescue mode enumerates the SDD as (hd0), and the 2.6.32-22 boot files are at (hd0,1)/boot. When the upgrade was running, /dev/sda was the SDD. I don't find any way that the grub install/setup during the upgrade could have become confused about which drive was supposed to get grub installed on it, nor any evidence that the drive enumeration would have changed. (The spinning disk, sdb, a.k.a. (hd1), has my 5.somtething - 9.04 repeatedly over-the-wire upgraded image and files, which is still attached since I'm not convinced I have all my settings transferred over...) (time passes) Huh. Booting from the spinning disk gets a grub2 style menu that can boot into 10.04 on sda. Now how do I fix it so grub's in the right MBR? (time passes) Trying sudo grub-install --root-directory=/ /dev/sda as per http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1014708 , linked by Jack Fariss (#14). Reboot. Change BIOS boot order to boot the SDD (sda, hd0) first again. Reboot. Success! So, for no apparent reason the 10.04 upgrade seems to have pushed grub onto the MBR of 10.04 or possibly the lingering 9.04 grub on sdb's MBR was able to find the 10.04 images and boot them. Either way... -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
I upgraded my Karmic to stable Lucid yesterday, today when i rebootet i got this error to. So to claim it is fixed in Lucid is wrong. I have two SATA drives. The first with windows (with two NTFS partition) and Kubuntu Karmic (with / /home /var ext4 partitions) and the second with only one ext4 partition. Downloading the Live CD now to see if I can reinstall Grub2 -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
Hey all after an hour on Google I found a fix that worked for me for the Grub_puts_ error. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1014708 I am currently dual-booting Windows 7 with Ubuntu 9.10. After upgrading to 10.04 though I got the grub_puts_ error. I just used my Ubuntu 9.10 disk and followed those 3 commands, restarted and computer booted no problems. That was a worrisome hour but the Ubuntu community always has a good fix out there! -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
Heads up... the http://ubuntuguide url mentioned in comment#7 links to a Windows virus downloader. Can someone please remove that url from this report/issue? -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
the permanent fix is to remove the Dell Backup Utility. Rob. On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 9:31 PM, M Pietila pietila.meg...@comcast.netwrote: Upgraded from Karmic to Lucid today and am also having the symbol 'grub_puts' not found error described by illbashu; I have the Ubuntu install on a different drive from sda, so I had to reinstall grub2 for Karmic also. I haven't rebooted yet after reinstalling grub2, but I assume I'll run into the same need-to-keep-fixing-it problem as illbashu... would definitely be nice to have a permanent fix! -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of a duplicate bug. -- Religion easily has the best bullshit story of all time. Think about it. Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money. -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
This bug might interact with the Dell Backup Utility, but I hit this bug every time I install Ubuntu with Grub2 on my no-name, custom PC. My computer uses a SATA DVD, and has lots of hard disks. The BIOS disk enumeration may change for Grub when the system is running the installation DVD, then disk ejects, reboots from the hard disk. In any case, I am certain that removing any Dell utility will not resolve the situation for me, as there are no such on this machine. On Apr 18, 2010, at 3:47 AM, bigdoby bigd...@gmail.com wrote: the permanent fix is to remove the Dell Backup Utility. Rob. On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 9:31 PM, M Pietila pietila.meg...@comcast.netwrote: Upgraded from Karmic to Lucid today and am also having the symbol 'grub_puts' not found error described by illbashu; I have the Ubuntu install on a different drive from sda, so I had to reinstall grub2 for Karmic also. I haven't rebooted yet after reinstalling grub2, but I assume I'll run into the same need-to-keep-fixing-it problem as illbashu... would definitely be nice to have a permanent fix! -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of a duplicate bug. -- Religion easily has the best bullshit story of all time. Think about it. Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man… living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money. -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of a duplicate bug. Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “grub2” package in Debian: New Bug description: Binary package hint: grub2 The grub-pc package calls grub-install on upgrades. The drive to install to is stored in debconf as a string like /dev/sdb. The problem is that /dev/sdb won't always be the same device if drives are moved around or, where the situation is particularly bad, when Ubuntu is installed to an external drive and used on multiple computers as a live system. For this reason everywhere else in Ubuntu I can think of file systems are specified with UUIDs rather than device names. For specifying drives, /dev/disk/by-id/ seems to give a unique way to identify a disk. grub-pc should store something like /dev/disk/by-id/usb-OEI- USB2_Ultra_Disk_Drive_090706000466-0:0 instead of /dev/sdb so there is no chance of installing to the wrong disk on grub-pc upgrades. As an example: If you install Ubuntu to an external USB drive on computer that has only one internal drive then grub-pc/ install_devices will likely contain /dev/sdb. If you then boot from that external on another computer that has an OS installed on its second internal drive, an upgrade of the grub-pc package would install to /dev/sdb making that computer unbootable. Work Around: If you install Ubuntu to an external drive and plan to use it on multiple computers run sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc and uncheck all drives when prompted for GRUB install devices. You will need to manually run grub-install to the correct drive before any major upgrades. To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/496435/+subscribe -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
This bug impacts all who have multiple SATA drives. While DELL may be corrupting things for _some_ users, my workstation doesn't have a single Windows partition on it. Grub DOES NOT HONOR the BIOS drive enumeration. If you have more than one disk drive, YOU CANNOT INSTALL this or any later version of Grub because it will choose its own order. In my case, I put a FreeDOS partition and a FAT-32 extended partition on the first bootable drive per the BIOS. After installing Ubuntu, there was no method of booting DOS from Grub because Grub changed the device numbering in a non-BIOS compatible way. Until Grub honors the BIOS device order, this bug will be a constant PITA On Sunday 18 April 2010 05:06:06 pm Boyd Waters wrote: This bug might interact with the Dell Backup Utility, but I hit this bug every time I install Ubuntu with Grub2 on my no-name, custom PC. My computer uses a SATA DVD, and has lots of hard disks. The BIOS disk enumeration may change for Grub when the system is running the installation DVD, then disk ejects, reboots from the hard disk. In any case, I am certain that removing any Dell utility will not resolve the situation for me, as there are no such on this machine. On Apr 18, 2010, at 3:47 AM, bigdoby bigd...@gmail.com wrote: the permanent fix is to remove the Dell Backup Utility. Rob. On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 9:31 PM, M Pietila pietila.meg...@comcast.netwrote: Upgraded from Karmic to Lucid today and am also having the symbol 'grub_puts' not found error described by illbashu; I have the Ubuntu install on a different drive from sda, so I had to reinstall grub2 for Karmic also. I haven't rebooted yet after reinstalling grub2, but I assume I'll run into the same need-to-keep-fixing-it problem as illbashu... would definitely be nice to have a permanent fix! -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of a duplicate bug. -- Religion easily has the best bullshit story of all time. Think about it. Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man… living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money. -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of a duplicate bug. Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “grub2” package in Debian: New Bug description: Binary package hint: grub2 The grub-pc package calls grub-install on upgrades. The drive to install to is stored in debconf as a string like /dev/sdb. The problem is that /dev/sdb won't always be the same device if drives are moved around or, where the situation is particularly bad, when Ubuntu is installed to an external drive and used on multiple computers as a live system. For this reason everywhere else in Ubuntu I can think of file systems are specified with UUIDs rather than device names. For specifying drives, /dev/disk/by-id/ seems to give a unique way to identify a disk. grub-pc should store something like /dev/disk/by-id/usb-OEI- USB2_Ultra_Disk_Drive_090706000466-0:0 instead of /dev/sdb so there is no chance of installing to the wrong disk on grub-pc upgrades. As an example: If you install Ubuntu to an external USB drive on computer that has only one internal drive then grub-pc/ install_devices will likely contain /dev/sdb. If you then boot from that external on another computer that has an OS installed on its second internal drive, an upgrade of the grub-pc package would install to /dev/sdb making that computer unbootable. Work Around: If you install Ubuntu to an external drive and plan to use it on multiple computers run sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc and uncheck all drives when prompted for GRUB install devices. You will need to manually run grub-install to the correct drive before any major upgrades. To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/496435/+subscribe -- Roland Hughes, President Logikal Solutions (630)-205-1593 http://www.logikalsolutions.com http://www.infiniteexposure.net http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
Upgraded from Karmic to Lucid today and am also having the symbol 'grub_puts' not found error described by illbashu; I have the Ubuntu install on a different drive from sda, so I had to reinstall grub2 for Karmic also. I haven't rebooted yet after reinstalling grub2, but I assume I'll run into the same need-to-keep-fixing-it problem as illbashu... would definitely be nice to have a permanent fix! -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
symbol 'grub_puts' not found grub-recover https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/509797 ^ bug report told me to post here. I'm having this prob on 10.04 beta every time grub gets updated. The only fix I found was to boot into 9.10 (only live cd I have) and restore grub. Is there any permanent fix for this? http://ubuntuguide.net/how-to-restore-grub-2-after-reinstalling-windows- xpvistawin7 -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
This should fix the core of this problem. I expect that it will need a few more tweaks, but that's why I'm landing it a couple of months before release. :-) If you have problems with this, please file them *separately* rather than following up to this bug, otherwise I'm going to get very confused very quickly! I do plan to apply this to Debian as well, but unfortunately it requires some lockstep changes in grub-installer which is currently frozen for a d-i release. I'll deal with that as soon as possible. grub2 (1.98~20100128-1ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low * Resynchronise with Debian. Remaining changes: - Adjust for default Ubuntu boot options (quiet splash). - Default to hiding the menu; holding down Shift at boot will show it. - Set a monochromatic theme for Ubuntu. - Apply Ubuntu GRUB Legacy changes to legacy update-grub script: title, recovery mode, quiet option, tweak how memtest86+ is displayed, and use UUIDs where appropriate. - Conflict with grub ( 0.97-54) as well as grub-legacy. - Fix backslash-escaping in merge_debconf_into_conf. - Remove GNU/Linux from default distributor string. - Add crashkernel= options if kdump and makedumpfile are available. - If other operating systems are installed, then automatically unhide the menu. Otherwise, if GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT is 0, then use keystatus if available to check whether Shift is pressed. If it is, show the menu, otherwise boot immediately. If keystatus is not available, then fall back to a short delay interruptible with Escape. - Allow Shift to interrupt 'sleep --interruptible'. - Don't display introductory message about line editing unless we're actually offering a shell prompt. Don't clear the screen just before booting if we never drew the menu in the first place. - Remove some verbose messages printed before reading the configuration file. - Suppress progress messages as the kernel and initrd load for non-recovery kernel menu entries. - Keep the loopback file open so that subsequent changes to the root environment variable don't affect it. - Change prepare_grub_to_access_device to handle filesystems loop-mounted on file images. - Ignore devices loop-mounted from files in 10_linux. - Show the boot menu if the previous boot failed, that is if it failed to get to the end of one of the normal runlevels. - Handle RAID devices containing virtio components. - Improve DM-RAID probing support. * Don't generate /boot/grub/device.map during grub-install by default. * Store grub-pc/install_devices as persistent device names under /dev/disk/by-id/. Migrate previous device names to that, with explicit confirmation in non-trivial cases to make sure we got the right ones. If the devices we were told to install to ever go away, ask again. * If the user opts to install GRUB nowhere, make sure they really mean it. * Backport disk read fixes from upstream. -- Colin Watson cjwat...@ubuntu.com Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:53:33 -0800 ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged = Fix Released ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) = Colin Watson (cjwatson) -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
Pretty sure this bug toasted my Pointsec encrypted primary drive. Karmic was installed entirely on secondary HD with primary not present (to make sure I didn't overwrite the mbr and break Pointsec). I then used the bios menu to switch between drives to boot. Booting the primary started showing GRUB recently. Tried to fixmbr from the Windows Rescue Disk to no avail. -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
This bug is exactly what's covered by the foundations-lucid-reliable- device-id-in-grub specification, so I've linked them. ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu) Status: New = Triaged ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = High -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
I can confirm this bug. The problem appears to be that Grub2 will include the
line
set root=(hdX,Y)
when installing grub on the external hard drive. In my case I had 3 internal
drives on the machine that I used to configure the external drive. So the line
root=(hd3,1) was included which works fine if the machine plugged into
identifies the external drive as (hd3,1) but not if the machine has, say, two
internal drives so identifies the external drive as (hd2,1).
This is a major regression from Grub 0.97 where it was possible to
specify by UUID to avoid such problems. Using the command set
root=UUID=uuid_string_of_numbers dosn't appear to work in Grub2. This
is my original menuentry in /boot/grub/grub.cfg:-
menuentry Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-17-generic {
recordfail=1
if [ -n ${have_grubenv} ]; then save_env recordfail; fi
set quiet=1
insmod ext2
set root=(hd3,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set fd0c6442-dc3d-49ba-8e46-91657460fe52
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-17-generic
root=UUID=fd0c6442-dc3d-49ba-8e46-91657460fe52 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-17-generic
I have tried a custom entry by creating a file (07_UbuntuUSB) in
etc/grub.d and running as follows:
menuentry UbuntuUSB, Linux 2.6.31-17-generic {
recordfail=1
if [ -n ${have_grubenv} ]; then save_env recordfail; fi
set quiet=1
insmod ext4
set root=UUID=fd0c6442-dc3d-49ba-8e46-91657460fe52
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set fd0c6442-dc3d-49ba-8e46-91657460fe52
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-17-generic
root=UUID=fd0c6442-dc3d-49ba-8e46-91657460fe52 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-17-generic
}
It shows in the grub boot menu ok then fails because it it cannot find a
file (but doesn't report which file it cannot find - another enhancement
request please). The UUID refers to the boot partition on the external
drive which contains the grub files and the os.
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[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
I would welcome some advice on how to post with a more pleasing layout too. -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
Am Mittwoch, den 06.01.2010, 21:15 + schrieb bwallum: set root=UUID=fd0c6442-dc3d-49ba-8e46-91657460fe52 search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set fd0c6442-dc3d-49ba-8e46-91657460fe52 The search --fs-uuid --set line will set $root the device with that UUID. There's no need to change the set root and set root=UUID= like used with the Linux kernel is just wrong and doestn't work. It shows in the grub boot menu ok then fails because it it cannot find a file (but doesn't report which file it cannot find - another enhancement request please). The UUID refers to the boot partition on the external drive which contains the grub files and the os. For now you have to type the commands of grub.cfg into GRUB's commandline yourself to see it. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #554790 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=554790 ** Also affects: grub2 (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=554790 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR
** Changed in: grub2 (Debian) Status: Unknown = New -- upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
