Bug#457388: my guess is udev
On 06/01/2008, Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl> wrote:
> reassign 457388 grub-installer
> stop
>
> Op 04-01-2008 om 23:40 schreef Richard van der Veen:
> >
> > My guess is there is some problem in the udev package from Debian ...
>
> My guess it is something with grub-installer.
But when it would be a problem caused by the grub-installer, this
would not happen when i use the lilo as boot method ... although also
then the boot process just hangs a fraction of a second after the
kernel loads.
This 'problem' i already had with the net-install image from
october-2007 and i posted some of this on the debian-user
mailing-list. Although i can not find that thread anymore in the list
archives on lists.debian.org. I can find that thread on
groups.google.com started on 9 october with the name "debian kernel
bugs / or is it grub?"
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/browse_thread/thread/cd5ad2d532ea6af6/369a5c164a21b9ed?hl=en&lnk=st&q=#369a5c164a21b9ed
> > i can just guess though.
>
> You could boot debian-installer in rescue mode,
> to get the logfiles out of the installed system.
> (your installation went fine, the logfiles are written to disk)
I am not sure which logfiles. I have several logfiles in /var/log/installer/
i tried this afternoon again with a fresh testing net install cd from
2008-01-04 and it still has the same problem. Installation went ok,
but with the part of to install grub i went back and choose to install
lilo. Again the kernel hangs with the message
Linux.........................................................................
................................................................................................
BIOS data check successful
Uncompressing Linux... OK, booting the kernel.
PCI:BIOS BUG: MCFG area at f0000000 is not E820-reserved
PCI: Not using MMCONFIG
PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:20000@90000000 for 0000:01:00.0
Loading , please wait....
ide0: I/O resource 0x3F6-0x3F6 not free.
ide0: ports already in use, skipping probe
ide1: I/O resource 0x376-0x376 not free.
ide1: ports already in use, skipping probe
mount: Mounting /dev/root on /root failed: No such device
mount: Mounting /root/dev/ on /dev/.static/dev failed: No such file or
directory
mount: Mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory
mount: Mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: No such file or directory
Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init
> Next step would be trimming the logfiles
> so only relevant parts like udev and grub-installer are left.
> Post the interresting parts to this bugreport (457388@bugs.debian.org)
>From /var/log/installer/status
Package: udev-udeb
Status: install ok unpacked
Version: 0.114-2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.6-1)
Description: /dev/ and hotplug management daemon
...
Package: pcmciautils-udeb
Status: install ok unpacked
Version: 014-4
Depends: udev-udeb, libc6 (>= 2.6-1), libsysfs2-udeb
Description: PCMCIA utilities for Linux 2.6
...
Package: grub-installer
Status: install ok half-configured
Priority: standard
Section: debian-installer
Installed-Size: 384
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Version: 1.27
Depends: cdebconf-udeb, kernel-installer, created-fstab, di-utils (>=
1.15), di-utils-mapdevfs, os-prober, partman-utils
Provides: bootable-system
Description: Install GRUB on a hard disk
Installer-Menu-Item: 7300
...
Package: lilo-installer
Status: install ok installed
Priority: standard
Section: debian-installer
Installed-Size: 208
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Version: 1.25
Depends: cdebconf-udeb, kernel-installer, di-utils (>= 1.15),
di-utils-mapdevfs, fdisk-udeb, os-prober
Provides: bootable-system
Description: Install LILO on a hard disk
Installer-Menu-Item: 7500
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