Control: tags -1 -d-i On Sat, 17 Jan 2015 11:04:51 +0100 Toni Mueller <supp...@oeko.net> wrote: > Package: upgrade-reports > Severity: critical > Tags: d-i > Justification: breaks the whole system > > > Hi, >
Hi, Thanks for reporting this bug. I am CC'ing the grub2 maintainers, hoping one of them might shed some light on this situation/problem. ~Niels > I recently upgraded a server (amd64) from Squeeze to Wheezy, and from > there to Jessie. The upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy went fine, but after > upgrading to Jessie, the machine would not boot anymore, spewing some > messages about something not found on the screen before dropping into > the grub shell. It turned out that the new version of Grub had not been > installed on the drives, but the old version had been deleted already. > > I first tried to resurrect the situation using the rescue mode of the > d-i CD to re-install Grub on the drive(s), but that failed on all > devices. I had to pop in a rescue CD (Finnix in my case) to mount all > partitions in order, chroot to the real system, then > > # grub-install /dev/sda > # grub-install /dev/sdb > # grub-install /dev/md0 > > After that, the machine came back up properly. > > The machine has the following partitioning scheme: > > /dev/md/0 -> /boot > /dev/md/1 -> LVM PV > > Inside the PV, I have /root , swap etc.pp. > > It might have been the case that re-installing Grub failed because I > changed the mdadm configuration as instructed in the Squeeze->Wheezy > upgrade notes from > > ARRAY /dev/md/0 something > ARRAY /dev/md/1 something > > to > > ARRAY /dev/md0 something > ARRAY /dev/md1 something > > (after doing the suggested checks, as instructed). > > I changed that back to > > ARRAY /dev/md/0 something > ARRAY /dev/md/1 something > > I think I did that before doing the grub-install dance, but after that, > the machine came back online just fine. > > > HTH, > --Toni++ > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
