lamadog
November 23rd, 2009, 09:22 PM
Hi!
I'm having problems with GRUB after a cleanish install (format and reinstall for /, old /home kept). As far as I can tell GRUB 2 has installed itself in the wrong MBR and is conflicting with GRUB 1 (from the right MBR) at startup, giving me GRUB state 1.5 error 2 at startup.
My setup is one HD (obviosly treated as hd0 by the BIOS) with Windows on it and 2 more HDs sharing an LVM volume for /home and a normal ext3 drive on the first one for /
Here is the result of the boot info bash script floating around:
============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================
=> Grub1.97 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive
in partition #1 for /boot/grub.
=> No boot loader is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb
=> Grub0.97 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdc and looks on boot drive #2 in
partition #1 for /boot/grub/stage2 and /boot/grub/menu.lst.
sda1: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: ext3
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Ubuntu 9.10
Boot files/dirs: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab
sda2: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: swap
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
sda3: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: LVM2_member
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
sdb1: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: LVM2_member
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
sdc1: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows XP
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System: Windows XP
Boot files/dirs: /boot.ini /ntldr /NTDETECT.COM
sdc2: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: Extended Partition
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
sdc5: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows XP
Boot sector info: According to the info in the boot sector, sdc5 starts
at sector 63.
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs:
=========================== Drive/Partition Info: =============================
Drive: sda ___________________ __________________________________________________ ___
Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000d49b8
Partition Boot Start End Size Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 39,070,079 39,070,017 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 39,070,080 50,781,464 11,711,385 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 50,781,465 488,392,064 437,610,600 8e Linux LVM
Drive: sdb ___________________ __________________________________________________ ___
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x9a5c353a
Partition Boot Start End Size Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 63 976,768,064 976,768,002 8e Linux LVM
Drive: sdc ___________________ __________________________________________________ ___
Disk /dev/sdc: 203.9 GB, 203928109056 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24792 cylinders, total 398297088 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x002f002e
Partition Boot Start End Size Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 63 61,432,559 61,432,497 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdc2 61,432,560 398,283,479 336,850,920 f W95 Ext d (LBA)
/dev/sdc5 61,432,623 398,283,479 336,850,857 7 HPFS/NTFS
blkid -c /dev/null: __________________________________________________ __________
/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/sda1: UUID="39fccedc-0ddc-499f-a5d2-cd47fe5b558b" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda2: UUID="dd1e43fa-c489-4e50-917c-a38328554029" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda3: UUID="Zmo6vM-D2px-c3rt-yeDC-4Clb-kGbM-s9ipH8" TYPE="LVM2_member"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="HQQKJl-wPyK-7x2O-er2B-h38q-ULEY-bHEVjm" TYPE="LVM2_member"
/dev/sdc1: UUID="17B8EB0841E2837F" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdc5: UUID="083CA2C63CA2ADDE" TYPE="ntfs"
=============================== "mount" output: ===============================
aufs on / type aufs (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
/dev/sr0 on /cdrom type iso9660 (rw)
/dev/loop0 on /rofs type squashfs (rw)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/ubuntu/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=ubuntu)
=========================== sda1/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 ###
if [ -s /boot/grub/grubenv ]; then
have_grubenv=true
load_env
fi
set default="0"
if [ ${prev_saved_entry} ]; then
saved_entry=${prev_saved_entry}
save_env saved_entry
prev_saved_entry=
save_env prev_saved_entry
fi
insmod ext2
set root=(hd0,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 39fccedc-0ddc-499f-a5d2-cd47fe5b558b
if loadfont /usr/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
if [ ${recordfail} = 1 ]; then
set timeout=-1
else
set timeout=10
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set menu_color_normal=white/black
set menu_color_highlight=black/white
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-14-generic-pae" {
recordfail=1
if [ -n ${have_grubenv} ]; then save_env recordfail; fi
set quiet=1
insmod ext2
set root=(hd0,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 39fccedc-0ddc-499f-a5d2-cd47fe5b558b
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic-pae root=UUID=39fccedc-0ddc-499f-a5d2-cd47fe5b558b ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic-pae
}
menuentry "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-14-generic-pae (recovery mode)" {
recordfail=1
if [ -n ${have_grubenv} ]; then save_env recordfail; fi
insmod ext2
set root=(hd0,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 39fccedc-0ddc-499f-a5d2-cd47fe5b558b
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic-pae root=UUID=39fccedc-0ddc-499f-a5d2-cd47fe5b558b ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic-pae
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin
}
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)" {
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin console=ttyS0,115200n8
}
### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
menuentry "Microsoft Windows XP Professional (on /dev/sdc1)" {
insmod ntfs
set root=(hd2,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 17b8eb0841e2837f
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 ###
=============================== sda1/etc/fstab: ===============================
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=39fccedc-0ddc-499f-a5d2-cd47fe5b558b / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/mapper/vg-lvol0 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=dd1e43fa-c489-4e50-917c-a38328554029 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
=================== sda1: Location of files loaded by Grub: ===================
.0GB: boot/grub/grub.cfg
.0GB: boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic-pae
.0GB: boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic-pae
.0GB: initrd.img
.0GB: vmlinuz
================================ sdc1/boot.ini: ================================
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
I've tried booting up the Live CD and fixing it a few times now, but can't seem to get anywhere. Reconfiguring grub-pc gives the following error for all disks I mark for installation of GRUB2:
grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for /boot/grub.
No path or device is specified.
Try ``grub-probe --help'' for more information.
Auto-detection of a filesystem module failed.
Please specify the module with the option `--modules' explicitly.
grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for /boot/grub.
No luck doing it with chroot either. Any ideas?
I'm having problems with GRUB after a cleanish install (format and reinstall for /, old /home kept). As far as I can tell GRUB 2 has installed itself in the wrong MBR and is conflicting with GRUB 1 (from the right MBR) at startup, giving me GRUB state 1.5 error 2 at startup.
My setup is one HD (obviosly treated as hd0 by the BIOS) with Windows on it and 2 more HDs sharing an LVM volume for /home and a normal ext3 drive on the first one for /
Here is the result of the boot info bash script floating around:
============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================
=> Grub1.97 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive
in partition #1 for /boot/grub.
=> No boot loader is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb
=> Grub0.97 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdc and looks on boot drive #2 in
partition #1 for /boot/grub/stage2 and /boot/grub/menu.lst.
sda1: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: ext3
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Ubuntu 9.10
Boot files/dirs: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab
sda2: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: swap
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
sda3: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: LVM2_member
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
sdb1: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: LVM2_member
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
sdc1: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows XP
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System: Windows XP
Boot files/dirs: /boot.ini /ntldr /NTDETECT.COM
sdc2: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: Extended Partition
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
sdc5: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows XP
Boot sector info: According to the info in the boot sector, sdc5 starts
at sector 63.
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs:
=========================== Drive/Partition Info: =============================
Drive: sda ___________________ __________________________________________________ ___
Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000d49b8
Partition Boot Start End Size Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 39,070,079 39,070,017 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 39,070,080 50,781,464 11,711,385 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 50,781,465 488,392,064 437,610,600 8e Linux LVM
Drive: sdb ___________________ __________________________________________________ ___
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x9a5c353a
Partition Boot Start End Size Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 63 976,768,064 976,768,002 8e Linux LVM
Drive: sdc ___________________ __________________________________________________ ___
Disk /dev/sdc: 203.9 GB, 203928109056 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24792 cylinders, total 398297088 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x002f002e
Partition Boot Start End Size Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 63 61,432,559 61,432,497 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdc2 61,432,560 398,283,479 336,850,920 f W95 Ext d (LBA)
/dev/sdc5 61,432,623 398,283,479 336,850,857 7 HPFS/NTFS
blkid -c /dev/null: __________________________________________________ __________
/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/sda1: UUID="39fccedc-0ddc-499f-a5d2-cd47fe5b558b" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda2: UUID="dd1e43fa-c489-4e50-917c-a38328554029" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda3: UUID="Zmo6vM-D2px-c3rt-yeDC-4Clb-kGbM-s9ipH8" TYPE="LVM2_member"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="HQQKJl-wPyK-7x2O-er2B-h38q-ULEY-bHEVjm" TYPE="LVM2_member"
/dev/sdc1: UUID="17B8EB0841E2837F" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdc5: UUID="083CA2C63CA2ADDE" TYPE="ntfs"
=============================== "mount" output: ===============================
aufs on / type aufs (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
/dev/sr0 on /cdrom type iso9660 (rw)
/dev/loop0 on /rofs type squashfs (rw)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/ubuntu/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=ubuntu)
=========================== sda1/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 ###
if [ -s /boot/grub/grubenv ]; then
have_grubenv=true
load_env
fi
set default="0"
if [ ${prev_saved_entry} ]; then
saved_entry=${prev_saved_entry}
save_env saved_entry
prev_saved_entry=
save_env prev_saved_entry
fi
insmod ext2
set root=(hd0,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 39fccedc-0ddc-499f-a5d2-cd47fe5b558b
if loadfont /usr/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
if [ ${recordfail} = 1 ]; then
set timeout=-1
else
set timeout=10
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set menu_color_normal=white/black
set menu_color_highlight=black/white
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-14-generic-pae" {
recordfail=1
if [ -n ${have_grubenv} ]; then save_env recordfail; fi
set quiet=1
insmod ext2
set root=(hd0,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 39fccedc-0ddc-499f-a5d2-cd47fe5b558b
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic-pae root=UUID=39fccedc-0ddc-499f-a5d2-cd47fe5b558b ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic-pae
}
menuentry "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-14-generic-pae (recovery mode)" {
recordfail=1
if [ -n ${have_grubenv} ]; then save_env recordfail; fi
insmod ext2
set root=(hd0,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 39fccedc-0ddc-499f-a5d2-cd47fe5b558b
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic-pae root=UUID=39fccedc-0ddc-499f-a5d2-cd47fe5b558b ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic-pae
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin
}
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)" {
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin console=ttyS0,115200n8
}
### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
menuentry "Microsoft Windows XP Professional (on /dev/sdc1)" {
insmod ntfs
set root=(hd2,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 17b8eb0841e2837f
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 ###
=============================== sda1/etc/fstab: ===============================
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=39fccedc-0ddc-499f-a5d2-cd47fe5b558b / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/mapper/vg-lvol0 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=dd1e43fa-c489-4e50-917c-a38328554029 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
=================== sda1: Location of files loaded by Grub: ===================
.0GB: boot/grub/grub.cfg
.0GB: boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic-pae
.0GB: boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic-pae
.0GB: initrd.img
.0GB: vmlinuz
================================ sdc1/boot.ini: ================================
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
I've tried booting up the Live CD and fixing it a few times now, but can't seem to get anywhere. Reconfiguring grub-pc gives the following error for all disks I mark for installation of GRUB2:
grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for /boot/grub.
No path or device is specified.
Try ``grub-probe --help'' for more information.
Auto-detection of a filesystem module failed.
Please specify the module with the option `--modules' explicitly.
grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for /boot/grub.
No luck doing it with chroot either. Any ideas?