FAI Stable release 3.4.4 available

Michael Tautschnig mt at debian.org
Fri Oct 22 00:33:20 CEST 2010


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> > 
> > Sorry, I forgot to actually attach 10-setup, as I had promised. Here it is.
> 
> Just tested the script. Seems to work. Fine!
> 

Thanks a lot for testing!

> But: I get an error (which seems like an warning to me) after...
> 
> 
> GRUB loading.
> Welcome to GRUB!
> 
> error: no such device: [UUID]
> error: no such disk.
> error: no suitable mode found.
> 
> 
> ... and before the Grub-Menu is shown (which clears the output).
> 
> System boots fine also with just the second disk and it may only be a
> minor problem but it's just not "nice".
> 
> After digging around a bit it seems to come from
> "/etc/grub.d/00_header" or to be more precise from the line
> 
> "/usr/sbin/grub-probe --target=device /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2"
> (as the parameter for "prepare_grub_to_access_device").
> 
> It returns "vgroup-usr" (why?). With this parameter for
> "prepare_grub_to_access_device" the following code (for grub.cfg) is
> finally generated:
> 
> 
> insmod raid
> insmod mdraid
> insmod lvm
> insmod part_msdos
> insmod part_msdos
> insmod ext2
> set root='(vgroup-usr)'
> search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set [UUID]
> 
> 
> I have absolutely no idea what the intension of this part of the code
> should be and why grub-probe returns "vgroup-usr" in the first
> place... (but "set root='(group-usr)'" looks terribly wrong.)
> 
> I then removed these lines from grub.cfg and still got the same
> error-lines. I then manually did:
> 
> % /usr/sbin/grub-install --no-floppy --modules="lvm raid" /dev/sd[ab]
> 
> And guess what. Sill the same error-lines. I am lost. Where does is
> come from?
> 
> I have to admit. I looks like a problem in Grub, not FAI. But I still
> hope you (or someone) has a clue what the problem could be. (This
> error-lines are not shown with my version of 10-setup).
> 

Sorry for being a bit late; could you still do another test? Could you try to
remove the "lvm" in the modules parameter? This is just a wild guess, but
vgroup-usr just looks so LVM-like...

Thanks a lot,
Michael

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