Bug#692168: [d-i beta3 btrfs] Unable to install lilo or grub, when / partition is btrfs
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: booting virtual machine from CD
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_beta3/i386/iso-cd/debian-wheezy-DI-b3-i386-netinst.iso
Date: 02. Nov 2012
Machine: Virtualbox VM
Partitions: guided partitioning, using the whole disk, all files in one
partition, format the / partition as btrfs
Partition table:
/dev/sda1 Linux
/dev/sda2 Extended
/dev/sda5 Swap
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [O]
Detect network card: [O]
Configure network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Clock/timezone setup: [O]
User/password setup: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install tasks: [O]
Install boot loader: [E]
Overall install: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
Installation went fine so far, installing basesystem and additional
task ('Standard system') works fine, until it came to installing a
boot loader.
First I tried to install lilo, I selected to install into the MBR.
This lead to the error /sbin/lilo failed with error code "1"
syslog contains this:
Unpacking lilo (from .../l/lilo/lilo_23.2-4_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up lilo (1:23.2-4) ...
WARNING: Added option 'large-memory', please run 'lilo' before you reboot.
+ boot = /dev/disk/by-id/ata-VBOX_HARDDISK_VBf9b9608c-a59c7d6e
+ root = "UUID=5400ffbc-ecod-47de-8103-32f2de035311"
WARNING: If boot / root options were converted, please run 'lilo' before you reboot.
Running lilo ...
Warning:
LBA32 addressing assumed
Fatal.
Trying to map files from unnamed device 0x0013 (NFS/RAID mirror down ?)
dpkg: error processing lilo (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Error were encountered while processing:
lilo
E
:
Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Then I tried grub, but it failed too:
syslog is not very verbose here:
grub-installer: info: Calling 'apt-install grub-pc' failed
WARNING **: Configuring 'grub-installer' failed with error code 1
WARNING **: Menu item 'grub-installer' failed.
I am unsure, what is the reason here, since I am trying to install into
the MBR, so the type of the root filesystem should be of no interest?
Don't know if this is relevant here, but probably btrfs-tools should be
installed somehow? (in this case it is not installed.)
Holger
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