Re: weired problem around grub2
On the 07/02/2011 07:53, Geronimo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Camaleón wrote:
>> On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 06:35:50 +0100, Geronimo wrote:
>>
>> (...)
>>
>>> The point is - the new system should be deleted - I want to install
>>> windows to that partition. So I need to install grub2 on my restored
>>> root partition. But whatever I try - grub will not work with that
>>> partition.
>>
>> (...)
>>
>> Maybe you can look into Rescatux (SuperGrubDisk) and try to install GRUB2
>> from there. At least with GRUB Legacy, SGD always worked fine for me.
>
> Thank you for that hint.
>
> I tried that CD, but the result did not differ from my manual tries.
> The point is, I have an external SATA-controller and disks change order too
> much times. That means, I don't have reliable device order.
>
> So I put a label on each vital partition and mount them by using the label in
> fstab. Works fine so far.
>
> What definitely does not work, is grub recognizing certain disk/partition.
> Although theres a device.map (with right identifiers for each drive), grub seem
> to not use it at all. Otherwise I don't understand current behaviour:
>
> Boot-drive is the first drive connected to internal controller (MB). The
> external controller has 3 drives connected, which means, boot-drive changes
> between sda and sdd.
> Boot-drive is configured to be the first drive (at BIOS bootdrive order).
>
> When I use the new install-CD of debian stable and boot into rescue-64bit, the
> root partition appears in the list as sda1 - so I select to start a
> commandline on that root partition.
> In that session, a df shows, that the root-partition is now sdd1 - so two
> different applications have different view to drives on the same run.
>
> Extremely strange ;)
>
> That boot-drive has 2 partitions, both containing debian squeeze with fstype
> ext4. The first partition is a restored image, which originated from an ext3
> installation, the second partition is a fresh installation using ext4.
> Both installations are up-to-date.
>
> When I start with the rescue-mode from install-CD and open a session to
> partition2, I can install grub with "grub-install" and the system will be
> bootable.
> Doing the same with partition 1 - grub-install says "no errors" but on reboot
> grub hangs and is not able to start the menue - so the system is unbootable.
>
> I already tried to reinstall grub on partition 1 - but did not change
> anything. Is the boot-directory expected to be located on certain block, or
> what could be the reason of such a weired behavior?
>
> kind regards
>
> Gero
>
>
Hello, did you check (blkid, vol_id ...) that you don't have two
partitions with the same UUID, since one is a "restored image" it's
possible that it still has the original UUID, and grub is going to look
at UUID's first.
My 2 cents...
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