Package: grub-common
Version: 1.99~rc1-3
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
I apologise if this is a duplicate. I didn't get a response from the
BTS and cannot find my bug anywhere. I suspect I killed off the
reportbug before I sent it.
In short, this is what is going wrong:
* My disks are being incorrectly detected
* A reboot halts at cannot find /init
* The grub menu crashes if the lines are too long
I have my root drive on a LVM partition called elmo-root and /boot is on
(md0). While some of the grub setup clauses such as 00_header and
05_debian_theme have the right disks, 10_linux sets the root to md0 and
detects the UUID of md0 too. This plainly does not work too well at
boot time.
I tried editing the boot parameters by selecting one of them and typing
'e' at the grub boot menu. As I had to tell where init was I tried
appending init=/sbin/init to the line starting with linux. The PC reset
when it got to a certain line length (a wrapped line plus 2 characters).
It didn't matter what I typed, including rubbish, it died at the same point.
I got around this problem by going to the grub prompt and doing the
following:
insmod raid,mdraid09,part_msdos
search --set=root -l root (detected correct elmo-root LVM)
linux (md0)/vmlinuz.... init=/sbin/init (must be not too long!!)
initrd (md0)/initrd.....
boot
That consistently works, but it is a pain as if the system boots by
itself, it hangs.
- Craig
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages grub-common depends on:
ii base-files 6.1 Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii dpkg 1.15.8.10 Debian package management system
ii gettext-base 0.18.1.1-3 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-6 Manage installed documentation in
ii libc6 2.11.2-12 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.63-1 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii libfreetype6 2.4.4-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages grub-common recommends:
ii os-prober 1.44 utility to detect other OSes on a
Versions of packages grub-common suggests:
pn grub-emu <none> (no description available)
pn multiboot-doc <none> (no description available)
pn xorriso <none> (no description available)
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