Package: installation-reports Severity: critical Justification: Will not boot, so no system, with or without rescue-disk-pc. Now Debian 6.0.0 is out, should I be sending this report to GRUB package directly ?
06.03.2011 Fails to boot with Debian sid, unstable grub-rescue-pc 1.99~rc1-3 i386, >From a Sil 3114 controller and a single SATA drive. No raid array is set. grub-rescue-cdrom.iso: El Torito CDROM image. The rescue disk boots itself ok, but it does not rescue the machine. The pc does not boot in conjunction with the rescue disk, after succesfully installing from, (except auto booting) versions of :- Debian 6.0.0, wheezy weekly build , unstable-20.02.2011 and also experimemtal-20.02.2011, and experimental-04.03.2011. After I set the rescue-disk-pc GNU/Linux parameters to :- set params 'GNU/Linux' (as it comes, a blank line here) set root=(hd0,1) linux /boot/vmlinux-2.6.37-2-486 root=/dev/sda1 initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.37-2-486 As a reminder from way above, this processor is: AMD K-6-2/400, along with all the other machine and system details. The rescue-disk-pc Boot Symptom is :- error: hd0 cannot get c/h/s values error: you need to load the kernel first. press any key to continue grub> ls (cd) (cd,msdos1) (fd0) I also tried with the rescue-disk-pc 1.99~rc1-3 set root= (sd0,0) or (sd1,0) or (sd0) or (sd0,1) or (sd1,1) or (sda,1) or (sda) error: no such disk. I set it back to hd0,1 and tried again. No joy. back to the symptom. I can use the 'install disk, graphical rescue mode' to /dev/sda1 ok. # eject /dev/scd0 works, along with other sda1 resident applications. # /usr/bin/nano /etc/apt/sources.list # /boot/grub/grub --version grub (GNU GRUB 1.99~rc1-3) I also ran # /usr/sbin/update-grub2 I tried booting from the dasd without using the rescue-disk-pc to hd0 again, but it would still not boot afterwards, or with a subsequent rescue-disk-pc. In the machines AMIBIOS setup - Advanced CMOS setup :- With the cdrom trays empty, a boot from the DASD with 'SCSI' set in the machines Bios as '1st Boot Device' and further Devices set to disabled, still gives :- Searching for Boot Record from SCSI..Not Found Boot Failure Reboot and Select proper Boot device or insert Boot Media in selected Boot device Press any key when ready With CDROM set as '1st Boot Device' and SCSI set as '2nd Boot Device' still gives:- Searching for Boot Record from CDROM..Not Found Reboot and Select proper Boot device or insert Boot Media in selected Boot device Press any key when ready You would think that with the last (2nd Boot Device) set as SCSI, the 4th from last line would still say :- " Searching for Boot Record from SCSI..Not Found. " as this would be the last device it tried to boot from. Further boot devices are set to disabled. I hope my installation-report helps with the GRUB Release Candidate 1-3 work. Regards McTech. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org