Bug#337523: Reboot failed, wrong grub root partition
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: Business card ISO image, downloaded on 27-Oct-05 from
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/current/debian-testing-i386-businesscard.iso
uname -a: Linux mowgli 2.6.12-1-686-smp #1 SMP Tue Sep 27 13:10:31 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
Date: End October '05
Method: Booted from CD, network install using onboard network port, no proxy
Machine: Dell Dimension 9100
Processor: Pentium D 830 (Dual Core, 3GHz)
Memory: 1GB
Root Device: 2 SATA disks with Intel ICH7 Raid 1 controller, /dev/sda, /dev/sdb
Root Size/partition table:
ahuggel@mowgli> df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/md0 4806976 933252 3629544 21% /
/dev/md4 28834620 6091696 21278204 23% /data1
/dev/md5 28834620 131260 27238640 1% /data2
/dev/md6 28849788 131260 27253008 1% /data3
/dev/md1 28834620 275628 27094272 2% /home
/dev/md2 9614052 1468388 7657296 17% /usr
tmpfs 517312 0 517312 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 10240 144 10096 2% /dev
and /dev/md3 is used for swap (about 1.6GB). All filesystems are EXT3.
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
ahuggel@mowgli> lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 945G/P Memory Controller Hub
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 945G/P PCI Express Graphics Port
0000:00:1b.0 0403: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
0000:00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH/GHM (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 01)
0000:00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH/GHM (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.2 0106: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controllers cc=AHCI (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]
0000:01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Radeon X300SE]
0000:05:02.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface
0000:05:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) LAN Controller (rev 01)
ahuggel@mowgli> lspci -n
0000:00:00.0 0600: 8086:2770
0000:00:01.0 0604: 8086:2771
0000:00:1b.0 0403: 8086:27d8 (rev 01)
0000:00:1c.0 0604: 8086:27d0 (rev 01)
0000:00:1c.4 0604: 8086:27e0 (rev 01)
0000:00:1c.5 0604: 8086:27e2 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:27c8 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:27c9 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:27ca (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.3 0c03: 8086:27cb (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:27cc (rev 01)
0000:00:1e.0 0604: 8086:244e (rev e1)
0000:00:1f.0 0601: 8086:27b8 (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.1 0101: 8086:27df (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.2 0106: 8086:27c1 (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:27da (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 0300: 1002:5b60
0000:01:00.1 0380: 1002:5b70
0000:05:02.0 0280: 104c:9066
0000:05:08.0 0200: 8086:27dc (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] Required manual selection of e100 module.
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O] Disabled the (fake) Raid 1 in BIOS prior to
installation and used Linux software Raid.
Partition hard drives: [O] Worked eventually. I found the process of
creating software Raid devices using the
installer not a straightforward one.
Documentation on this appears to be sparse,
couldn't find useful info.
Suggestion: A help page with a step-by-step
example for this procedure would have helped
greatly.
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Reboot: [E] Bug: Grub booted from (hd0,0) and aborted.
The correct root entry turned out to be (hd0,4).
Comments/Problems:
Before resorting to install via the built in network interface, I tried to use a
wireless network card from Netgear. There seem to be two Linux drivers for this
card, acx100 and ndiswrapper, both require 3rd party firmware for the card and both
are not available on the current installer afaics.
Wishlist item: Since ndiswrapper supports various hardware, it would be nice to
have it on the installer with an option to load the firmware from a separate CD or
other medium.
(The card works now, using the acx100 driver, I didn't try ndiswrapper)
X config didn't work out of the box, apparently the video card is not yet
supported. Used Knoppix to find out that vesa driver works and configured that.
Sound doesn't work. (Saw a post somewhere which suggested that it should work
with kernel 2.6.13 but haven't tried that.)
Finally, having been a KDE user for the past 3 years or so, I found it quite
disturbing that choosing a 'Desktop' system installs a Gnome desktop without
mentioning it or better, giving me an option to use KDE.
Thanks for all the good work!
Andreas
- checking out Gnome now...
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