Bug#212445: marked as done (grub install failure, cannot find device for /boot)
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From: Jerry Quinn <jlquinn@optonline.net>
Subject: Install report - further this time
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Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: 09-15-2003 http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
uname -a: 2.4.20-1-386
Date: 9-15-03 10:30
Method: How did you install? What did you boot off? If network
install, from where? Proxied?
Booting from CD. I used the "net" method.
Machine: Thinkpad T30
Processor: 1.8GHz Pentium4
Memory: 768MB
Root Device: IDE
Root Size/partition table: Feel free to paste the full partition
table, with notes on which partitions are mounted where.
Output of lspci:
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [E]
Reboot: [ ]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
As with 'linux' install, the net install only has e100. However, it
seems to get much futher more easily. The display works ok for
starters, although the # char scroll bar is not displayed correctly.
Detect hardware and load kernel still results in error messages on VC4
about missing eepro100 and orinoco_pci drivers. But no user messages
are sent back.
Installing the base system worked, but VC4 showed a whole pile of
messages from the installer:
WF: Retrying failed download of %s
I tried to install grub as the bootloader without sucess. There are a
bunch of syslog errors on VC4 during this operation. VC3 has:
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
Could not find device for /boot: Not found or not a block device.
On VC4:
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy) sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy) sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy) sector 2
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy) sector 4
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy) sector 6
My machine only has a CD installed - the ultrabay floppy is currently
not in the machine.
I then tried installing LILO, which went perfectly.
Until I rebooted and system got as far as printing "Booting the
kernel" and doing a warm reboot immediately.
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To: 199973-done@bugs.debian.org, 211067-done@bugs.debian.org,
212445-done@bugs.debian.org, 187135-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: grub-installer problems should be fixed now
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The problems in install-grub should be fixed in version 0.19, with the
code to update /target/etc/mtab.
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