On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Markus Viitamäki <mar...@viitamaki.net> wrote: > > I have this small problem to upgrade GRUB to GRUB2 when upgrading my > boxes from Lenny to Squeeze. > > This problem seems to be related to using Raid or not, as the servers > I've tested on and want to upgrade is either using mdadm-raid or > hardware-raid. (I have not been able to test on a non-raid system as i > don't have one) > > The problem is that grub-pc package wont install as it fails on a > problem like this: > > Setting up grub-pc (1.98+20100804-14) ... > /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-pc.postinst: line 270: 18302 Killed > grub-mkdevicemap --no-floppy > dpkg: error processing grub-pc (--configure): > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 137 > configured to not write apport reports > dpkg: dependency problems > prevent configuration of grub: > grub depends on grub-pc; however: > Package grub-pc is not configured yet. > dpkg: error processing grub (--configure): > dependency problems - leaving unconfigured > configured to not write apport reports > Errors were encountered while processing: > grub-pc > grub > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > And I've tried a few other things to just get more information but > without success. > > grub-install --recheck /dev/sda > /usr/sbin/grub-install: line 285: 18340 Killed > $grub_mkdevicemap --device-map=$device_map $no_floppy > grub-mkdevicemap --no-floppy > Killed > > This is the setup of the system and partitions I have: > df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda3 5.1G 2.7G 2.2G 55% / > /dev/sda1 59M 19M 37M 34% /boot > /dev/sda4 129G 63G 60G 52% /var
grub-pc doesn't seem to like your hardware RAID. Does "grub-mkdevicemap --verbose --no-floppy" give a better clue to what's failing? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTindyzCqJ3B3ptv=jmdeoxmpznm562gsn3cnt...@mail.gmail.com