Re: Installation problems
--I'm pretty concerned here, guys... The July 12 netinstall is still utterly broken (will not install Grub, and even if you manage to work around that - it won't start X after boot!
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-kfreebsd-amd64/current/images/netboot-9/
--I dunno why it's still available out there on the FTP server, but it really makes kfreebsd look bad. The installer that the world in general sees (if they discover kfreebsd by reading an article/review/whatever and want to try it out) really needs to be bulletproof. If there's a better code rev, please release it. I'll be happy to upload a working Kfreebsd VM to the Free OS Zoo - but I have to get a workable VM 1st!!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dg@cowlark.com
> Sent: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 22:38:35 +0100
> To: debian-bsd@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Installation problems
>
> On 11/08/12 21:13, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
> [...]
>> That could be the recently-fixed grub-installer bug (#613430: /proc not
>> mounted in the target); unfortunately the fix didn't make it into the
>> beta1 installer, but it should be fixed in sid_d-i daily builds;
>>
>> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/kfreebsd-amd64/
>
> Didn't help, I'm afraid. I did check that linprocfs was correctly
> mounted on /target/proc.
>
> Unfortunately I can't quote the exact error I'm getting from
> grub-install as it's all happening inside the installer. It did tell me
> to run grub-probe with a set of arguments and send the result to the
> GRUB bugs mailing list --- text attached at the end here.
>
> [...]
>> The formatting process for UFS should wipe the first and last 512 KiB of
>> the partition; maybe that's not enough?
>
> It's reproducable:
>
> mkfs.jfs /dev/sdd1
> mkfs.ufs /dev/sdd1
> wipefs /dev/sdd1
>
> ->
>
> offset type
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> 0x1055c ufs [filesystem]
>
> 0x8000 jfs [filesystem]
> UUID: bbd31999-01a4-45eb-bb43-815beaf65a5c
>
> That's on Linux Debian with the mkfs.ufs from ufsutils. (Which,
> annoyingly, refuses to create a file system in an ordinary file so I had
> to dig up a real USB stick to test with.)
>
> [...]
>> I'm not sure it's meant to, unless the kFreeBSD partition already
>> contains a valid bootloader for it to chain-load.
>
> I was expecting it to detect the /boot/kfreebsd-9.0-1-amd64.gz file and
> create a menu entry to boot it directly --- it does that on Linux OSes.
>
>
>
> Output of grub-probe follows:
>
> ---snip---
> grub-probe: info: Scanning for dmraid_nv RAID devices on disk hd0.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 1953525168.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 1953525168.
> grub-probe: info: Scanning for dmraid_nv RAID devices on disk hd1.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 125045424.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 125045424.
> grub-probe: info: scanning hd0 for LVM.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 1953525168.
> grub-probe: info: no LVM signature found.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 1953525168.
> grub-probe: info: scanning hd1 for LVM.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 125045424.
> grub-probe: info: no LVM signature found.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 125045424.
> grub-probe: info: Scanning for mdraid09 RAID devices on disk hd0.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 1953525168.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 1953525168.
> grub-probe: info: Scanning for mdraid09 RAID devices on disk hd1.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 125045424.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 125045424.
> grub-probe: info: Scanning for mdraid1x RAID devices on disk hd0.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 1953525168.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 1953525168.
> grub-probe: info: Scanning for mdraid1x RAID devices on disk hd1.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 125045424.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 125045424.
> grub-probe: info: Scanning for mdraid09 RAID devices on disk hd0.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 1953525168.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 1953525168.
> grub-probe: info: Scanning for mdraid09 RAID devices on disk hd0,msdos7.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 1953525168.
> grub-probe: info: Scanning for mdraid09 RAID devices on disk hd0,msdos6.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 1953525168.
> grub-probe: info: Scanning for mdraid09 RAID devices on disk hd0,msdos5.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 1953525168.
> grub-probe: info: Scanning for mdraid09 RAID devices on disk hd0,msdos3.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 1953525168.
> grub-probe: info: Scanning for mdraid09 RAID devices on disk hd0,msdos1.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 1953525168.
> grub-probe: info: Scanning for mdraid09 RAID devices on disk hd1.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 125045424.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 125045424.
> grub-probe: info: Scanning for mdraid09 RAID devices on disk hd1,msdos1.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 125045424.
> grub-probe: info: Scanning for mdraid1x RAID devices on disk hd0.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 1953525168.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 1953525168.
> grub-probe: info: Scanning for mdraid1x RAID devices on disk hd0,msdos7.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 1953525168.
> grub-probe: info: Scanning for mdraid1x RAID devices on disk hd0,msdos6.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 1953525168.
> grub-probe: info: Scanning for mdraid1x RAID devices on disk hd0,msdos5.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 1953525168.
> grub-probe: info: Scanning for mdraid1x RAID devices on disk hd0,msdos3.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 1953525168.
> grub-probe: info: Scanning for mdraid1x RAID devices on disk hd0,msdos1.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 1953525168.
> grub-probe: info: Scanning for mdraid1x RAID devices on disk hd1.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 125045424.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 125045424.
> grub-probe: info: Scanning for mdraid1x RAID devices on disk hd1,msdos1.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 125045424.
> grub-probe: info: scanning hd0 for LVM.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 1953525168.
> grub-probe: info: no LVM signature found.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 1953525168.
> grub-probe: info: scanning hd0,msdos7 for LVM.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 1953525168.
> grub-probe: info: no LVM signature found.
> grub-probe: info: scanning hd0,msdos6 for LVM.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 1953525168.
> grub-probe: info: no LVM signature found.
> grub-probe: info: scanning hd0,msdos5 for LVM.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 1953525168.
> grub-probe: info: no LVM signature found.
> grub-probe: info: scanning hd0,msdos3 for LVM.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 1953525168.
> grub-probe: info: no LVM signature found.
> grub-probe: info: scanning hd0,msdos1 for LVM.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 1953525168.
> grub-probe: info: no LVM signature found.
> grub-probe: info: scanning hd1 for LVM.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 125045424.
> grub-probe: info: no LVM signature found.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 125045424.
> grub-probe: info: scanning hd1,msdos1 for LVM.
> grub-probe: info: the size of hd1 is 125045424.
> grub-probe: info: no LVM signature found.
> grub-probe: info: changing current directory to /dev.
> grub-probe: info: changing current directory to fd.
> grub-probe: info: changing current directory to usb.
> grub-probe: info: changing current directory to iso9660.
> grub-probe: info: following geom 'ada0s6'.
> grub-probe: info: geom 'ada0s6' has parent 'ada0s2'.
> grub-probe: info: following geom 'ada0s2'.
> grub-probe: info: geom 'ada0s2' has parent 'ada0'.
> grub-probe: info: following geom 'ada0'.
> grub-probe: info: geom 'ada0' has no parent.
> grub-probe: info: following geom 'ada0s6'.
> grub-probe: info: geom 'ada0s6' has parent 'ada0s2'.
> grub-probe: info: following geom 'ada0s2'.
> grub-probe: info: geom 'ada0s2' has parent 'ada0'.
> grub-probe: info: following geom 'ada0'.
> grub-probe: info: geom 'ada0' has no parent.
> grub-probe: info: following geom 'ada0s6'.
> grub-probe: info: geom 'ada0s6' has parent 'ada0s2'.
> grub-probe: info: following geom 'ada0s2'.
> grub-probe: info: geom 'ada0s2' has parent 'ada0'.
> grub-probe: info: following geom 'ada0'.
> grub-probe: info: geom 'ada0' has no parent.
> grub-probe: info: following geom 'ada0s6'.
> grub-probe: info: geom 'ada0s6' has parent 'ada0s2'.
> grub-probe: info: following geom 'ada0s2'.
> grub-probe: info: geom 'ada0s2' has parent 'ada0'.
> grub-probe: info: following geom 'ada0'.
> grub-probe: info: geom 'ada0' has no parent.
> grub-probe: info: /dev/ada0s6 starts from 218114505.
> grub-probe: info: opening the device /dev/ada0.
> grub-probe: info: the size of /dev/ada0 is 1953525168.
> grub-probe: info: Partition 0 starts from 63.
> grub-probe: info: Partition 2 starts from 209102848.
> grub-probe: info: Partition 4 starts from 209715327.
> grub-probe: info: Partition 5 starts from 218114568.
> grub-probe: info: Partition 6 starts from 260079616.
> grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/ada0s6. Check your
> device.map.
> ---snip---
>
> Contents of /boot/grub/device.map follows:
> ---snip---
> (hd0) /dev/ad4
> (hd1) /dev/ad6
> ---snip---
>
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