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- To: submit@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Installation Report - grub install weirdness
- From: Joel Johnson <mrjoel@lixil.net>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 13:48:14 -0700
- Message-id: <42C1B78E.5030800@lixil.net>
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
Debian-installer-version: Official Sarge 3.1r0a Business Card
uname -a: 2.6.8-2-686-smp
Date: 28 June 2005
Method: Business Card CD Install
Machine: Dell PowerEdge 2650
Processor: Intel Xeon 2.2 GHz
Memory: 1.25 GB
Root Device: SCSI - Dell PERC 3/Di running RAID5 (aacraid driver)
Root Size/partition table:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/volgroup-root
14679612 352104 14327508 3% /
/dev/sda1 248948 40400 208548 17% /boot
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
'lspci':
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ServerWorks CMIC-WS Host Bridge (GC-LE
chipset) (rev 13)
0000:00:00.1 Host bridge: ServerWorks CMIC-WS Host Bridge (GC-LE chipset)
0000:00:00.2 Host bridge: ServerWorks CMIC-LE
0000:00:04.0 ff00: Dell Embedded Remote Access or ERA/O
0000:00:04.1 ff00: Dell Remote Access Card III
0000:00:04.2 0c07: Dell Embedded Remote Access: BMC/SMIC device
0000:00:0e.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL
(rev 27)
0000:00:0f.0 Host bridge: ServerWorks CSB5 South Bridge (rev 93)
0000:00:0f.1 IDE interface: ServerWorks CSB5 IDE Controller (rev 93)
0000:00:0f.2 USB Controller: ServerWorks OSB4/CSB5 OHCI USB Controller
(rev 05)
0000:00:0f.3 ISA bridge: ServerWorks CSB5 LPC bridge
0000:00:10.0 Host bridge: ServerWorks CIOB-X2 PCI-X I/O Bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:10.2 Host bridge: ServerWorks CIOB-X2 PCI-X I/O Bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:11.0 Host bridge: ServerWorks CIOB-X2 PCI-X I/O Bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:11.2 Host bridge: ServerWorks CIOB-X2 PCI-X I/O Bridge (rev 03)
0000:03:06.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5701
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 15)
0000:03:08.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5701
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 15)
0000:04:08.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 80303 I/O Processor PCI-to-PCI
Bridge (rev 01)
0000:04:08.1 RAID bus controller: Dell PowerEdge Expandable RAID
Controller 3/Di (rev 01)
'lspci -n':
0000:00:00.0 0600: 1166:0012 (rev 13)
0000:00:00.1 0600: 1166:0012
0000:00:00.2 0600: 1166:0000
0000:00:04.0 ff00: 1028:000c
0000:00:04.1 ff00: 1028:0008
0000:00:04.2 0c07: 1028:000d
0000:00:0e.0 0300: 1002:4752 (rev 27)
0000:00:0f.0 0600: 1166:0201 (rev 93)
0000:00:0f.1 0101: 1166:0212 (rev 93)
0000:00:0f.2 0c03: 1166:0220 (rev 05)
0000:00:0f.3 0601: 1166:0225
0000:00:10.0 0600: 1166:0101 (rev 03)
0000:00:10.2 0600: 1166:0101 (rev 03)
0000:00:11.0 0600: 1166:0101 (rev 03)
0000:00:11.2 0600: 1166:0101 (rev 03)
0000:03:06.0 0200: 14e4:1645 (rev 15)
0000:03:08.0 0200: 14e4:1645 (rev 15)
0000:04:08.0 0604: 8086:0309 (rev 01)
0000:04:08.1 0104: 1028:000a (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]
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: [E]
Comments/Problems:
With this install I again ran into the issue where grub gives the
message: "The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly." I've searched
before and dug up discussions where it was suggested that partition
types were set incorrectly, but I verified correct partitioning.
It doesn't seem to occur overly frequently, but I still have seen it a
few times, and others I've talked to mentioned it as well.
In this particular setup, I created a /boot partition at the beginning
(256MB), and a swap partition (512MB) at the end of the drive, and used
the remaining space as a PV for LVM. In the VG, I create two logical
volumes, / and /var. From my basic testing, the only thing that seems to
have an effect is /boot and /. It also appears to be independent of
whether / is a native partition, or an LVM LV.
I noticed that the filesystem on each volume seemed to effect the
success of the grub installation, so I did a number of test installs,
with the following filesystems and results (filesystems indicated are in
the pair (/boot fs, / fs) (installed in expert mode):
Native partitions:
1. (, reiser) - Success (no seperate /boot - I assume all
filesystems will work in this configuration)
2. (ext2, reiser) - FAILED
3. (ext2, ext2) - Success
4. (reiserfs, ext3) - Unknown (The installation hung on this test,
and I never repeated it)
root on LVM:
5. (ext2, reiser) - FAILED (After this test I assumed that LVM
was not a factor - that may not be correct, but for this purpose I have
assumed so)
6. (reiser, reiser) - Success
7. (ext3, reiser) - FAILED
8. (ext3, ext3) - FAILED
9. (ext2, ext3) - FAILED
(The rest of the tests were to test using non-ext/reiser
filesystems, I don't have enough experience with grub on XFS/JFS to know
if they're useful)
10. (XFS, JFS) - FAILED
11. (XFS, XFS) - FAILED
12. (JFS, JFS) - FAILED
My initial wish was to use reiserfs on /var and /, and ext2 on /boot. I
found it interesting that (ext2, ext2) worked, while (ext3, ext3) did
not. I also tried combinations of reiser and ext2 to no avail.
Any ideas what could be the cause of the grub installation failures?
Thanks,
Joel Johnson
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