Bug#593648: grub-pc: install fails on RAID1 - a possible workaround

2011-06-20 Thread Michel Briand
Package: grub-pc Version: 1.99-6 Followup-For: Bug #593648 Hi, I've experienced the same problem as per this bug. Debian installer reported an error about grub installation. Error message told: /proc/devices: fopen failed: No such file or directory So I though of mounting /proc. I did it, ran

Bug#593648: grub-pc install fails on RAID1

2011-06-09 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
At Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:58:21 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > Since md0 isn't partitioned it seems like the problem is the > > manifestation of another issue of GRUB accepting metadata at the end of > > last partition as metadata for the whole disk. This is fixed for 1.x > > metadata but is still a pr

Bug#593648: grub-pc install fails on RAID1

2011-06-07 Thread Ross Boylan
> Since md0 isn't partitioned it seems like the problem is the > manifestation of another issue of GRUB accepting metadata at the end of > last partition as metadata for the whole disk. This is fixed for 1.x > metadata but is still a problem with 0.9 one due to 0.9 data sector not > containing eno

Bug#593648: grub-pc install fails on RAID1 (unknown filesystem)

2011-04-09 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 19.08.2010 23:20, Benjamin Scherrer wrote: > kern/disk.c:245: Opening `md0,msdos4'... Since md0 isn't partitioned it seems like the problem is the manifestation of another issue of GRUB accepting metadata at the end of last partition as metadata for the whole disk. This is fixed for 1.x metadata

Bug#593648: grub-pc install fails on RAID1 (unknown filesystem)

2010-08-25 Thread Markus Hochholdinger
Hi again, sorry for the noise, but I have to correct this. I've now a reason why the installing of grub fails although I don't know why. The server in question is also running a iscsi initiator (open-iscsi) and these devices are shown as sdc, sdd, .. It seems this confuses grub-install. Booted

Bug#593648: grub-pc install fails on RAID1 (unknown filesystem)

2010-08-25 Thread Markus Hochholdinger
Hi, I've just investigated some more time. If I boot from a squeeze cd in rescue mode and let rescue mode put me in a shell on /dev/md0 I can run grub-install /dev/md0 and I'm able to boot from hard disk. After booting from hard disk and again running grub-install /dev/md0 I'm again not able

Bug#593648: grub-pc install fails on RAID1 (unknown filesystem)

2010-08-25 Thread Markus Hochholdinger
Hi, I've here a similiar problem. After rebooting a 2.6.32-5-amd64 machine with raid1 grub wasn't able to boot the system. Last Messages where like "Welcome to grub" and then falls back to "grub rescue>" shell. I've booted with a squeeze installer cd into rescue mode and found out that install

Bug#593648: grub-pc install fails on RAID1 (unknown filesystem)

2010-08-19 Thread Benjamin Scherrer
Package: grub-pc Version: 1.98+20100804-2 Justification: renders package unusable Severity: grave *** Please type your report below this line *** Hi, I have this problem with today's testing migration, I have a RAID1 and can't even reboot right now. Where can I downgrade? There is only the 1.96 v