Bug#546021: Have the same problem on three boxes

Ron Murray rjmx at rjmx.net
Sun Sep 20 02:30:35 UTC 2009


Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.97~beta3-1
Severity: normal

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I have three boxes running testing. They all exhibit the same problem,
and have been doing so for a couple of months now.

They're all set up in much the same way:

- - root partition is a primary partition using ext3, and is small (~ 500M)
- - /home, /usr and /var are all LVM partitions, using XFS

On boot, there's a brief flash of a reverse-video message which I
think says "Welcome to grub", but it goes by so fast that it's hard to
be certain. It's followed by a grub screen giving details on how to
edit things, and this is a normal PC white-on-black. It hangs here for
some time (10? 20? seconds), then the "error: no such disk" message
appears. After a few more seconds, the proper grub boot screen appears
(with the correct background image), and all is normal from then on
and the system can be booted on any of the selections.

- -- Package-specific info:

*********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts
/dev/disk/by-uuid/7333124d-f589-4427-a71b-a5aa1391eab4 / ext3 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=writeback 0 0
/dev/mapper/khufu_vg-home_lv /home xfs rw,relatime,noquota 0 0
/dev/mapper/khufu_vg-usr_lv /usr xfs rw,relatime,noquota 0 0
/dev/mapper/khufu_vg-var_lv /var xfs rw,relatime,noquota 0 0
*********************** END /proc/mounts

*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/device.map
(hd0)	/dev/sda
(hd1)	/dev/sdb
*********************** END /boot/grub/device.map

*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/grub.cfg
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
set default=0
insmod lvm
insmod xfs
set root=(khufu_vg-usr_lv)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set d67a593e-d7cd-4e73-bc6c-5275cf5c86a4
if loadfont /share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then
  set gfxmode=640x480
  insmod gfxterm
  insmod vbe
  if terminal_output gfxterm ; then true ; else
    # For backward compatibility with versions of terminal.mod that don't
    # understand terminal_output
    terminal gfxterm
  fi
fi
set timeout=5
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
insmod ext2
set root=(hd0,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 7333124d-f589-4427-a71b-a5aa1391eab4
insmod tga
if background_image /boot/grub/B-1B_over_the_pacific_ocean.tga ; then
  set color_normal=black/black
  set color_highlight=magenta/black
else
  set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue
  set menu_color_highlight=white/blue
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, Linux 2.6.31-khufu-0" {
	insmod ext2
	set root=(hd0,1)
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 7333124d-f589-4427-a71b-a5aa1391eab4
	linux	/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-khufu-0 root=UUID=7333124d-f589-4427-a71b-a5aa1391eab4 ro  selinux=0 printk.time=n vga=794
	initrd	/boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-khufu-0
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, Linux 2.6.31-khufu-0 (recovery mode)" {
	insmod ext2
	set root=(hd0,1)
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 7333124d-f589-4427-a71b-a5aa1391eab4
	linux	/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-khufu-0 root=UUID=7333124d-f589-4427-a71b-a5aa1391eab4 ro single 
	initrd	/boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-khufu-0
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, Linux 2.6.30.5-khufu-0" {
	insmod ext2
	set root=(hd0,1)
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 7333124d-f589-4427-a71b-a5aa1391eab4
	linux	/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30.5-khufu-0 root=UUID=7333124d-f589-4427-a71b-a5aa1391eab4 ro  selinux=0 printk.time=n vga=794
	initrd	/boot/initrd.img-2.6.30.5-khufu-0
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, Linux 2.6.30.5-khufu-0 (recovery mode)" {
	insmod ext2
	set root=(hd0,1)
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 7333124d-f589-4427-a71b-a5aa1391eab4
	linux	/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30.5-khufu-0 root=UUID=7333124d-f589-4427-a71b-a5aa1391eab4 ro single 
	initrd	/boot/initrd.img-2.6.30.5-khufu-0
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
	linux	/boot/memtest86+.bin
}
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)" {
	linux	/boot/memtest86+.bin console=ttyS0,115200n8
}
### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/22_invaders ###
menuentry "GRUB Invaders" {
	insmod ext2
	set root=(hd0,1)
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 7333124d-f589-4427-a71b-a5aa1391eab4
	multiboot	/boot/invaders.exec
}
### END /etc/grub.d/22_invaders ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
menuentry "Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader) (on /dev/sdb1)" {
	insmod ntfs
	set root=(hd1,1)
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 6e6047cd60479aab
	drivemap -s (hd0) ${root}
	chainloader +1
}
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries.  Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment.  Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
*********************** END /boot/grub/grub.cfg

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-khufu-0 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.5.27       Debian configuration management sy
ii  grub-common                 1.97~beta3-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 
ii  libc6                       2.9-25       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  ucf                         3.0021       Update Configuration File: preserv

grub-pc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages grub-pc suggests:
ii  desktop-base                  5.0.5      common files for the Debian Deskto
ii  genisoimage                   9:1.1.9-1  Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem

- -- debconf information:
  grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline:
  grub-pc/linux_cmdline:
* grub2/linux_cmdline:
* grub-pc/chainload_from_menu.lst: true
  grub-pc/kopt_extracted: false
  grub-pc/postrm_purge_boot_grub: false
  grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline_default: quiet
* grub2/linux_cmdline_default: selinux=0 printk.time=n vga=794
* grub-pc/install_devices: /dev/sda

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