Fwd: jessie grub issue

[Francesco Pietra <chiendarret@gmail.com>]

Actually, unlike in my previous wheezy installation, with the testing installer I was unable to install a bootable partition under md0.

With wheezy I created a partition of, say, 0.0003TB, primary, beginning, mount point /boot, bootable flag on, using it as physical volume for raid.

With the testing installer, when use as physical volume for raid is chosen, bootable flag gets OFF (tried again by deleting partitions and rebuilding raid 1)

Consequently, the installer did not ask to install grub.

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Francesco Pietra <chiendarret@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 5:09 PM
Subject: Fwd: jessie grub issue
To: amd64 Debian <debian-amd64@lists.debian.org>

Examining with testing installer, the error followed from errors in configured partitions:

LVM VG vg1 etc for md1
.......................................
........................................
RAID1 device #0 - 298.5 MB Linux Software RAID Array

  #1   298.5 MB    F lvm
RAID1 device #1 - 999.8 GB Linux Software RAID device

  #1   999.8 GB    K lvm

         512.0 B   unusable

SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda)  1.0 TB ATA ....

          1MB     FREE SPACE

    #1  298.8 MB   K raid

    #2  999.9 GB  K raid

          728.6 kB     FREE SPACE

SCSI2 (0,0,0) (sdb)  1.0 TB ATA ....
          1MB     FREE SPACE
    #1  298.8 MB   K raid
    #2  999.9 GB  K raid
          728.6 kB     FREE SPACE

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From: Francesco Pietra <chiendarret@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 4:35 PM
Subject: jessie grub issue
To: amd64 Debian <debian-amd64@lists.debian.org>

Hello:

In a new installation of amd64 (raid 1 two devices md0 md1) from the recent testing installer, I made some mistake as to md0, whereby the system does not boot. The situation is illustrated below (booting live SystemRescueCD):

root@sysresccd /root % fsarchiver probe simple gig64

[======DISK======] [=============NAME==============] [====SIZE====] [MAJ] [MIN]

[sda ] [WDC WD1002FAEX-0 ] [ 931.51 GB] [ 8] [ 0]

[sdb ] [WDC WD1002FAEX-0 ] [ 931.51 GB] [ 8] [ 16]

[sr0 ] [DVD RW AD-7260S ] [ 380.83 MB] [ 11] [ 0]

[=====DEVICE=====] [==FILESYS==] [======LABEL======] [====SIZE====] [MAJ] [MIN]

[loop0 ] [squashfs ] [<unknown> ] [ 266.84 MB] [ 7] [ 0]

[sda1 ] [linux_raid_] [gig64:0 ] [ 285.00 MB] [ 8] [ 1]

[sda2 ] [linux_raid_] [gig64:1 ] [ 931.23 GB] [ 8] [ 2]

[sdb1 ] [linux_raid_] [gig64:0 ] [ 285.00 MB] [ 8] [ 17]

[sdb2 ] [linux_raid_] [gig64:1 ] [ 931.23 GB] [ 8] [ 18]

[md0 ] [LVM2_member] [<unknown> ] [ 284.69 MB] [ 9] [ 0]

[md1 ] [LVM2_member] [<unknown> ] [ 931.11 GB] [ 9] [ 1]

[dm-0 ] [ext3 ] [<unknown> ] [ 3.72 GB] [253] [ 0]

[dm-1 ] [ext3 ] [<unknown> ] [ 55.88 GB] [253] [ 1]

[dm-2 ] [ext3 ] [<unknown> ] [ 10.24 GB] [253] [ 2]

[dm-3 ] [ext3 ] [<unknown> ] [ 11.18 GB] [253] [ 3]

[dm-4 ] [ext3 ] [<unknown> ] [ 3.72 GB] [253] [ 4]

[dm-5 ] [swap ] [<unknown> ] [ 37.25 GB] [253] [ 5]

[dm-6 ] [ext3 ] [<unknown> ] [ 809.11 GB] [253] [ 6]

Actually, it would be like below, in another amd 64 (wheezy) installation on another box:

root@tya64:/home/francesco# fsarchiver probe simple tya64

[======DISK======] [=============NAME==============] [====SIZE====] [MAJ] [MIN]

[sda ] [ST500DM002-1BD14 ] [ 465.76 GB] [ 8] [ 0]

[sdb ] [ST500DM002-1BD14 ] [ 465.76 GB] [ 8] [ 16]

[=====DEVICE=====] [==FILESYS==] [======LABEL======] [====SIZE====] [MAJ] [MIN]

[sda1 ] [linux_raid_] [tya64:0 ] [ 187.00 MB] [ 8] [ 1]

[sda2 ] [linux_raid_] [tya64:1 ] [ 465.29 GB] [ 8] [ 2]

[sdb1 ] [linux_raid_] [tya64:0 ] [ 187.00 MB] [ 8] [ 17]

[sdb2 ] [linux_raid_] [tya64:1 ] [ 465.29 GB] [ 8] [ 18]

[md0 ] [ext2 ] [<unknown> ] [ 186.81 MB] [ 9] [ 0]

[md1 ] [LVM2_member] [<unknown> ] [ 465.16 GB] [ 9] [ 1]

[dm-0 ] [ext3 ] [<unknown> ] [ 952.00 MB] [253] [ 0]

[dm-1 ] [swap ] [<unknown> ] [ 13.97 GB] [253] [ 1]

[dm-2 ] [ext3 ] [<unknown> ] [ 27.94 GB] [253] [ 2]

[dm-3 ] [ext3 ] [<unknown> ] [ 9.31 GB] [253] [ 3]

[dm-4 ] [ext3 ] [<unknown> ] [ 9.31 GB] [253] [ 4]

[dm-5 ] [ext3 ] [<unknown> ] [ 2.79 GB] [253] [ 5]

[dm-6 ] [ext3 ] [<unknown> ] [ 400.47 GB] [253] [ 6]

Grateful for indications how to remedy (from live SystemrescueCD, or otherwise). I have no experience with such manipulations

francesco pietra