Re: Can't install Grub on SSD (bullseye)
On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 12:11:54AM +0200, Xavier Brochard wrote:
>Hi
>
>I'm currently testing the new installer for bullseye. I ran into a strange
>problem with grub-install, using "bios" grub, not EFI. Basicaly grub files
>are not copied in /boot/grub if my carget is a SSD.
>Could you tell me if this is a known issue before I write a bug report ?
Ummm. That's a very odd situation that should not happen. When you say
SSD, is that SATA or NVME?
>Here's more details :
>
>This was tried several times on an intel server with hard-drive or SSD as
>target. Both using a /boot partition anl LVM for everything else. Problem
>happened only with SSD. I've used Bullseye images with firmware, build on the
>end of march or the beginning of april.
>
>Trying to install grub on SSD failed, saying "no space left" while there is
>tons on free space in the /boot partition and folder /boot/grub is empty :
>===========
>Apr 5 21:21:07 grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sda'
>Apr 5 21:21:07 grub-installer: info: grub-install does not support
>--no-floppy
>Apr 5 21:21:08 grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install
>--force "/dev/sda"
>Apr 5 21:21:08 grub-installer: Installing for i386-pc platform.
>Apr 5 21:21:08 grub-installer: grub-install: error: cannot open
>`/boot/grub/i386-pc/sleep_test.mod': No space left on device.
>Apr 5 21:21:08 grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install --force
>"/dev/sda"' failed.
>===========
>
>Booting with rescue option doesn't give the choice to fix Grub install if SSD
>is the target. While testing with hard drive as target, the option is there.
Can you show us the partitioning on both the SSD and the hard drive
please? (fdisk -l is probably easiest).
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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