Bug#615152: grub2: Cannot recognize FS format any more under kfreebsd ports

Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko phcoder at gmail.com
Sat Mar 26 12:00:50 UTC 2011


tag fixed-upstream
thanks
On 26.02.2011 05:54, Dererk wrote:
> Package: grub2
> Version: 1.99~rc1-3
> Severity: important
> Usertags: kfreebsd
>
>
> Hi there.
>
> I've been using grub2 on my kfreebsd machines for some time now with no
> issues at all, but since two or three weeks I started getting this very
> exact error on both i386 and amd64 machines, one performing grub package
> upgrades. Unfortunately one of them went down unexpectedly and caused me
> to loose the capability to boot since I get grub entering rescue mode
> without being able to perform any task other than getting "error:
> unknown filesystem."
>
> I'm using regular UFS on the root partition which holds the /boot too,
> _no zfs_ on any of them.
>
>
> This is the log I get from the other running machine which stills live:
>
> root <at> ananke[~]# dpkg-reconfigure -plow grub-pc
> camcontrol: cam_lookup_pass: CAMGETPASSTHRU ioctl failed
> cam_lookup_pass: No such file or directory
> cam_lookup_pass: either the pass driver isn't in your kernel
> cam_lookup_pass: or ad0 doesn't exist
> camcontrol: cam_lookup_pass: CAMGETPASSTHRU ioctl failed
> cam_lookup_pass: No such file or directory
> cam_lookup_pass: either the pass driver isn't in your kernel
> cam_lookup_pass: or ad0 doesn't exist
> camcontrol: cam_lookup_pass: CAMGETPASSTHRU ioctl failed
> cam_lookup_pass: No such file or directory
> cam_lookup_pass: either the pass driver isn't in your kernel
> cam_lookup_pass: or ad0 doesn't exist
> camcontrol: cam_lookup_pass: CAMGETPASSTHRU ioctl failed
> cam_lookup_pass: No such file or directory
> cam_lookup_pass: either the pass driver isn't in your kernel
> cam_lookup_pass: or ad0 doesn't exist
> Configuring grub-pc
> -------------------
>
> The grub-pc package is being upgraded. This menu allows you to select
> which devices you'd like grub-install to be automatically run for, if any.
>
> Running grub-install automatically is recommended in most situations, to
> prevent the installed GRUB core image from getting out of sync with GRUB
> modules or grub.cfg.
>
> If you're unsure which drive is designated as boot drive by your BIOS,
> it is often a good idea to install GRUB to all of them.
>
> Note: it is possible to install GRUB to partition boot records as well,
> and some appropriate partitions are offered here. However, this forces
> GRUB to use the blocklist mechanism, which makes
> it less reliable, and therefore is not recommended.
>
>   1. /dev/ad0 (??? MB; ???)  2. /dev/ad0s1a (??? MB; ???)  3. none of
> the above
>
> (Enter the items you want to select, separated by spaces.)
>
> GRUB install devices: 1 2
>
>
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/ad0s1a. 
> Check your device.map.
> Auto-detection of a filesystem of /dev/ad0s1a failed.
> Please report this together with the output of "/usr/sbin/grub-probe
> --device-map="/boot/grub/device.map" --target=fs -v /boot/grub" to
> <bug-grub at gnu.org>
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/ad0s1a. 
> Check your device.map.
> Auto-detection of a filesystem of /dev/ad0s1a failed.
> Please report this together with the output of "/usr/sbin/grub-probe
> --device-map="/boot/grub/device.map" --target=fs -v /boot/grub" to
> <bug-grub at gnu.org>
> GRUB failed to install to the following devices:
>
> /dev/ad0 /dev/ad0s1a
>
> Do you want to continue anyway? If you do, your computer may not start
> up properly.
>
> Writing GRUB to boot device failed - continue? y
>
>
> root <at> ananke[~]#
>
> root <at> ananke[~]# /usr/sbin/grub-probe
> --device-map="/boot/grub/device.map" --target=fs -v /boot/grub
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 8388608.
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 8388608.
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: scanning hd0 for LVM.
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 8388608.
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: no LVM signature found
> .
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 8388608.
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 8388608.
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 8388608.
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 8388608.
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 8388608.
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 8388608.
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 8388608.
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 8388608.
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 8388608.
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 8388608.
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 8388608.
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 8388608.
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 8388608.
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 8388608.
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 8388608.
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: scanning hd0 for LVM.
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 8388608.
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: no LVM signature found
> .
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 8388608.
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: scanning hd0,msdos1,bsd2 for LVM.
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 8388608.
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: no LVM signature found
> .
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: scanning hd0,msdos1,bsd1 for LVM.
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 8388608.
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: no LVM signature found
> .
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: scanning hd0,msdos1 for LVM.
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 8388608.
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: no LVM signature found
> .
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: changing current directory to /dev.
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: changing current directory to fd.
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: changing current directory to led.
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: info: changing current directory to usb.
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/ad0s1a. 
> Check your device.map.
>
> root <at> ananke[~]# cat /boot/grub/device.map
> (hd0)    /dev/ad0
>
> root <at> ananke[~]# df
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a            3567918    461166   2821320  15% /
> devfs                        1         1         0 100% /dev
> linprocfs                    4         4         0 100% /proc
> /sys                         4         4         0 100% /sys
> fdescfs                      1         1         0 100% /dev/fd
> tmpfs                   629024         4    629020   1% /lib/init/rw
>
>
> Please do let me know about any possible information I can provide you
> with to solve this issue, which is quite important as it's highly likely
> to render many systems unbootable.
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dererk
>
>   
>
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-- 
Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko


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