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Bug#673195: [wheezy-alpha1] unable to install grub2 or lilo onto an btrfs filesystem



Hello,

Holger Wansing <linux@wansing-online.de> wrote:
> Package: debian-installer
> 
> Test-installation with image: wheezy alpha1 xfce-lxde Binary-1 CD
> on a virtualbox 3.2.10 i386 machine
> 
> Since I read this in the wheezy-alpha1 announcement:
> 	"Allow Btrfs /boot partition (GRUB 2 and LILO)"
> ..., I tried to use a one-for-all btrfs filesystem (being the
> only one existing partition for / a btrfs filesystem).
> But installation of grub2 and lilo both failed.

I choosed 'Guided partitioning' -> use hole disk -> everything on one
partition -> I changed root-filesystem from ext4 into btrfs after that.

grub-installer and lilo-installer failed, when it came to installing
the bootloader to the MBR.


Here are some infos from the logs (partly roughly translated from
german to english):

[Trying to install grub2 to MBR]
info: Installing grub on '/dev/sda'
info: grub-install supports --no-floppy
info: Running chroot /target grub-install --no-floppy --force "/dev/sda"
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error
cannot find a device for /boot/grub (is /dev mounted?) 
           [Holger: yes, /dev was mounted.
           /dev/sda, /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2 and /dev/sda5 were existing]
.
error: Running 'grub-install --no-floppy --force "/dev/sda"' failed
[...]
WARNING **: Configuring 'grub-installer' failed with error code 1
WARNING **: Menu item 'grub-installer' failed.


[Trying to install lilo to MBR]
lilo (1:23.2-4 is configured...
Trigger for menu are beeing processed
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
Warning:
LBA32 addressing assumed
Fatal:
Trying to map files from unnamed device 0x0013 (NFS/RAID mirror down ?)
WARNING **: Configuring 'lilo-installer' failed with error code 1
WARNING **: Menu item 'lilo-installer' failed.



Holger

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