Bug#571035: [squeeze alpha1] installationsreport: grub2: machine doesn't boot
Hello,
Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-09-04 at 20:33 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote:
> [...]
> > If that's relevant, this is the complete menu config for that
> > boot entry:
> >
> > insmod part_msdos
> > insmod ext2
> > set root='(hd0,msdos1)'
> > search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 9e863f51-5067-470a-d85345d98db6
> > echo 'Loading Linux 2.6.32-5-486 ...'
> > linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-486 root=/dev/hda1 ro all_generic_ide quiet
> > echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
> > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-486
>
> Try replacing 'quiet' with 'earlyprintk=vga'.
Sorry, this makes no difference.
Displayed on screen is:
Decompressing Linux... Parsing ELF... done.
Booting the kernel.
and that's it. System waits for ever.
Additional info:
I did some investigations today, here are the results:
I copied two additional kernels to the harddisc of that machine
(via live-cd) and added the corresponding grub menu entries.
That way, I wanted to try if those kernels boot correctly.
1. the first of those kernels is an 2.6.34.5, self baked, which is
running on another machine of mine.
It is not strictly a debian kernel, the sources are from kernel.org.
It is an kernel _without_initrd_.
The result is the same: system hangs after "Booting the kernel".
2. the second is a debian-installer kernel.
I copied the kernel and initrd from a debian-installer netinst cd
(the same cd which was used to perform the test installation, leading
to this bugreport #571035, an debian-testing daily build from
23. Aug 2010.
That kernel boots fine!!!
So, it seems to be not a grub2 issue, but a kernel issue (oh, yes, you
knew this already, maybe :-))
Greetings
Holger
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