Re: grub hangs at end of installing buster amd 64
On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 03:24:48PM +0100, andrew u frank wrote:
>I install buster alpha10 from a medium i have used successfully 2 or 3 times
>before.
>
>The installation is on a x86_64 system and the installation runs smoothly. At
>the end, the grub hangs with
>
> grub install on /dev/sdb (sdb is my harddrive)
>
>I find on one of the terminals (alt-F4?) information which is repeated over
>and over:
>
> xx not initialized in udev database
>
>and xx cycles through all partitions (especially the LVM partitions). I had
>setup the LVM before starting the installer and just selected three LVM
>partitions for / /home and swap. There was nothing irregular observed about
>the LVM system.
Right. Looks like a udev-related issue. I've seen the same thing on
some test installations last night, but it *everntually* finished
after a couple of minutes when I let it run. How long did you try for?
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