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Bug#275506: marked as done (installation-reports: grub misconfigured in presence of LVM)

Your message dated Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:57:42 +0000
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and subject line Closing old installation report #275506
has caused the Debian Bug report #275506,
regarding installation-reports: grub misconfigured in presence of LVM
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Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal

INSTALL REPORT

Debian-installer-version: pre-rc2 from people.d.o/~joeyh/d-i/images/pre-rc2/
uname -a: Linux kamoun 2.6.8-1-686 #1 Tue Sep 14 00:22:58 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
Date: 8 Oct 2004
Method: netboot and ftp.easybet.be, no proxy
Machine: IBM Thinkpad X40
Processor: Pentium M 1.2 GHz
Memory: 512 MB
Root Device: IDE, /dev/hda
Root Size/partition table: 

Disk /dev/hda: 77520 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track
Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary.
DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently.
Units = cylinders of 516096 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1          0+  74369   74370-  37482479+   5  Extended
/dev/hda2          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
/dev/hda3          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
/dev/hda4      74370   77519    3150    1587600   a0  IBM Thinkpad hibernation
/dev/hda5          0+    519     520-    262079   83  Linux
/dev/hda6        520+   7777    7258-   3658031+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda7       7778+   9858    2081-   1048823+  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda8       9859+  11939    2081-   1048823+  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda9      11940+  14020    2081-   1048823+  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda10     14021+  16101    2081-   1048823+  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda11     16102+  18182    2081-   1048823+  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda12     18183+  20263    2081-   1048823+  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda13     20264+  22344    2081-   1048823+  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda14     22345+  24425    2081-   1048823+  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda15     24426+  26506    2081-   1048823+  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda16     26507+  28587    2081-   1048823+  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda17     28588+  30668    2081-   1048823+  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda18     30669+  32749    2081-   1048823+  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda19     32750+  34830    2081-   1048823+  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda20     34831+  36911    2081-   1048823+  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda21     36912+  38992    2081-   1048823+  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda22     38993+  41073    2081-   1048823+  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda23     41074+  43154    2081-   1048823+  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda24     43155+  45235    2081-   1048823+  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda25     45236+  47316    2081-   1048823+  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda26     47317+  49397    2081-   1048823+  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda27     49398+  51478    2081-   1048823+  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda28     51479+  53559    2081-   1048823+  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda29     53560+  55640    2081-   1048823+  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda30     55641+  57721    2081-   1048823+  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda31     57722+  59802    2081-   1048823+  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda32     59803+  61883    2081-   1048823+  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda33     61884+  63964    2081-   1048823+  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda34     63965+  66045    2081-   1048823+  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda35     66046+  68126    2081-   1048823+  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda36     68127+  70207    2081-   1048823+  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda37     70208+  72288    2081-   1048823+  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda38     72289+  74369    2081-   1048823+  8e  Linux LVM

All LVM partitions in one VG, one LV for /. /boot is on /dev/hda5.

Output of lspci and lspci -n:

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Host Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 855GM/GME GMCH Memory I/O Control Registers (rev 02)
0000:00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 855GM/GME GMCH Configuration Process Registers (rev 02)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
0000:00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB 2.0 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 81)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DBM LPC Interface Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4) Ultra ATA Storage Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
0000:02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev 8d)
0000:02:00.1 0805: Ricoh Co Ltd: Unknown device 0822 (rev 13)
0000:02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82541GI Gigabit Ethernet Controller
0000:02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
0000:00:00.0 0600: 8086:3580 (rev 02)
0000:00:00.1 0880: 8086:3584 (rev 02)
0000:00:00.3 0880: 8086:3585 (rev 02)
0000:00:02.0 0300: 8086:3582 (rev 02)
0000:00:02.1 0380: 8086:3582 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:24c2 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:24c4 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:24c7 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:24cd (rev 01)
0000:00:1e.0 0604: 8086:2448 (rev 81)
0000:00:1f.0 0601: 8086:24cc (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.1 0101: 8086:24ca (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:24c3 (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.5 0401: 8086:24c5 (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.6 0703: 8086:24c6 (rev 01)
0000:02:00.0 0607: 1180:0476 (rev 8d)
0000:02:00.1 0805: 1180:0822 (rev 13)
0000:02:01.0 0200: 8086:1077
0000:02:02.0 0200: 168c:1014 (rev 01)


Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot worked:    [O]
Configure network HW:   [O] (wired ethernet, e1000)
Config network:         [O] (DHCP)
Detect CD:              [O] (machine doesn't have a CD drive)
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives:     [O]
Partition hard drives:  [ ] (done manually in shell on tty2)
Create file systems:    [O]
Mount partitions:       [O]
Install base system:    [E]
Install boot loader:    [E]
Reboot:                 [E]

Comments/Problems:

I did the partitioning proper in the shell on tty2. Then, used the
partman in debian-installer to create filesystems, LVM VG and LV,
etc.

The mkinitrd of postrm of the kernel fails because only hda1 through
hda20 are created in /target/dev. After manual creation of hda21
through hda63 and 'rm -r' of everything except dev and var/cache/apt
in /target, base system install works OK.

Then, grub install finished without error, but grub is misconfigured:
Its groot was at (hd0,0) instead of (hd0,4) and the root= option
passed to the kernel was at /dev/hda1. The path to the kernel and
initrd image were also incorrect: They contain a /boot prefix which
shouldn't be there (/boot on separate partition).
This all leads to grub being unable to boot Linux.

/etc/fstab isn't created either; it contains only:

# UNCONFIGURED FSTAB FOR BASE SYSTEM


(Hmm... I'm starting to think that maybe the /etc/fstab was created by
 the "partition" step, not "install base system" and that I thus
 deleted it when I shouldn't. But the original reason I started to
 delete things in /target/ is that the "install base system" step is
 not idempotent. This would be better for robustness and manual
 fiddling.)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US

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We are closing this installation report for one of the following
reasons:
- it was reported with a pre-lenny version of Debian
  Installer.
- indications in the installation report give the feeling that
  the reported problem waslying in another software, unrelated to
  D-I, which we can't easily identify.
- indications in the installation report suggest that it may have been
  fixed in a more recent version of a D-I component
- it was successful and we forgot closing it..:-)
- it has no information we consider useful


The D-I team is currently in the process of cleaning out the old spool
of installation reports that haven't bene processed yet. 

In case you think that the problem you reported has chances to be
still present, please reiterate your installation test with
a more recent image of D-I, if you're in position of doing this.

You'll find daily builds at
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer. We recommend you choose
the netboot image, in the "daily builds section", then choose to
install "squeeze" when prompted.

If some problems are found, please report them with a new bug sent
against installation-reports.

Many thanks for your understanding and your help improving Debian,
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