Package: grub-pc Version: 1.98-1 Severity: important Tags: squeeze Please see debian bug #582177 for some already-done debuging. The only __grub__ bug I could find that seemed relevant to this problem was #575076.
Very recent changes to the grub-pc have caused my system to fail to "load ramdisk" at boot. I have to boot the system with the backup initrd image. I have checked with "rootdelay=10"--no change. The problem originally was thought to be in the initramfs-tools package. The problems appeared in mid-February 2010. I am only using the squeeze dataset without items from experimental or other sources. My system is different from most in that my / partition is inside a luks crypto container which is then on a RAID 6 volume. The /boot is on an unencrypted RAID 1 volume. Each physical disk has a separate bios_grub partition (128k) and the partition tables are GPT. As I said before this above setup WORKS and I have a 6TB system where the "boot" disk can fail (I tested this) and the system comes back alive. For whatever reason, recent changes to grub-pc 1) make it not "see" the hard drives or any USB devices for that mater, 2) fails to start the RAID devices, and thus 3) the kernel panics during the boot sequence. Thank you for all your work. C. Cropper -- Package-specific info: *********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts /dev/mapper/md1_crypt / xfs rw,relatime,attr2,logbsize=256k,sunit=512,swidth=1536,noquota 0 0 /dev/md0 /boot xfs rw,sync,relatime,wsync,attr2,noquota 0 0 /dev/mapper/bbox /bbox xfs rw,relatime,attr2,logbufs=8,noquota 0 0 *********************** END /proc/mounts *********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/device.map (hd0) /dev/sda (hd1) /dev/sdb (hd2) /dev/sdc (hd3) /dev/sdd (hd4) /dev/sde (hd5) /dev/sdf *********************** 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 ### 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 } insmod raid insmod mdraid insmod xfs set root='(md0)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set aa3fde3d-abc0-468b-8188-fa3a8d3f9fce if loadfont /grub/unicode.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 insmod raid insmod mdraid insmod xfs set root='(md0)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set aa3fde3d-abc0-468b-8188-fa3a8d3f9fce set locale_dir=($root)/grub/locale set lang=en insmod gettext set timeout=5 ### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ### insmod raid insmod mdraid insmod xfs set root='(md0)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set aa3fde3d-abc0-468b-8188-fa3a8d3f9fce insmod png if background_image /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 2.6.32-3-amd64" --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { insmod raid insmod mdraid insmod xfs set root='(md0)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set aa3fde3d-abc0-468b-8188-fa3a8d3f9fce echo Loading Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 ... linux /vmlinuz-2.6.32-3-amd64 root=/dev/mapper/md1_crypt ro quiet echo Loading initial ramdisk ... initrd /initrd.img-2.6.32-3-amd64 } menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (recovery mode)" --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { insmod raid insmod mdraid insmod xfs set root='(md0)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set aa3fde3d-abc0-468b-8188-fa3a8d3f9fce echo Loading Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 ... linux /vmlinuz-2.6.32-3-amd64 root=/dev/mapper/md1_crypt ro single echo Loading initial ramdisk ... initrd /initrd.img-2.6.32-3-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 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 ### *********************** END /boot/grub/grub.cfg -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages grub-pc depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.32 Debian configuration management sy ii grub-common 1.98-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib 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-show failed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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