Bug 63848
| Summary: | Grub hangs at boot with no output | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Public Beta | Reporter: | Jason Tibbitts <j> |
| Component: | grub | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | skipjack-beta2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2003-01-20 17:07:52 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Jason Tibbitts
2002-04-19 15:11:15 UTC
Just the obvious question -- is there a newer bios available? Also, does it work if you comment out the splashscreen directive? This is the newest BIOS available for the board. There is a beta BIOS, but given the dismal quality of their release software, I'm not even considering the beta. I should add that Grub works fine on this motherboard with disk hooked up to the IDE channel, so it's not a problem inherent to the motherboard or BIOS. Commenting out the splashscreen directive doesn't help; I'm pretty certain that things are failing long before it gets to that point. I can't rule out it dying in the BIOS before it gets to run anything, but it does clear the screen which is something that the BIOS generally doesn't do itself. Just FYI, boot is well below any barrier, but this disk is utterly huge and this could confuse any number of things: Using /dev/sda Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/sda is 139508/255/63. Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 8032.499M. (parted) print Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-1094334.500 megabytes Disk label type: msdos Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags 1 0.031 125.507 primary ext3 boot 2 125.508 3122.006 primary ext3 3 3122.007 5169.353 primary linux-swap 4 5169.353 -1002818.006 extended lba 5 5169.384 9264.045 logical ext3 6 9264.076 17453.430 logical ext3 7 17453.461 17971.149 logical ext3 8 17971.181 18488.869 logical ext3 Some more information. I booted to a grub floppy and did: root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) and I get (typed in manually): Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... yes Checking if "/grub/stage2" exists... yes Checking if "/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 22 sectors are embedded. succeeded Running "install /grub/stage1 d (hd0) (hd0)1+22 p (hd0,0)/grub/stage2 /grub/grub.conf"... failed Error 24: Attempt to access block outside partition Next I'll try it from the grub shell while Linux is booted; perhaps I'll get a useful kernel message. What are the contents of your /boot/grub/device.map file and what do you have your BIOS boot order set up as? /boot/grub/device.map has: # this device map was generated by anaconda (fd0) /dev/fd0 (hd0) /dev/sda BIOS boot order is: Removable Devices Legacy Floppy Drives Hard Drive 3ware Storage Controller Bootable Add-in Cards CD-ROM MBA UNDI(Bus2 Slot0) The last item is the network card. The machine has no bootable cards besides the 3ware card and no CD-ROM. There are no IDE devices (other than the ones behind the 3ware card, of course). I just wanted to add that this problem persists with Red Hat 8 (grub-0.92-7). I have several machines that cannot boot without making little grub floppies; all have one or more 3ware cards with as much as 1.4TB on a single card (all of which appears as one utterly huge /dev/sda). None have any other attached disk (other than floppies and perhaps CDs). I've just put grub-0.93-1 up at http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/grub/. Could you see if this fixes the problems? It took me a bit to get a storage server I could play around with. Finally I
built a new machine, 8x200GB disks on a 3w7500-8 controller in RAID5 mode, dual
Xeon processors, 6GB of RAM, Red Hat 8. The machine will not boot without a
GRUB floppy (of which I have a standard one used for all of my storage servers).
The /boot/grub/device.map is identical to the one included above.
I downloaded and installed your 0.93 RPM and ran grub-install /dev/sda. The
failure is the same, although I notice the size of stage1_5 has shrunk a bit:
util3:~> s grub-install /dev/sda
GRUB version 0.93 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB
lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
completions of a device/filename. ]
grub> root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 --prefix=/grub (hd0)
Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... yes
Checking if "/grub/stage2" exists... yes
Checking if "/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 16 sectors are embedded.
succeeded
Running "install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+16 p
(hd0,0)/grub/stage2 /grub/grub.conf"... failed
Error 24: Attempt to access block outside partition
grub> quit
Please let me know if there is any further testing I can do.
So these are on arrays of larger than a terabyte? Can you try the test package available at http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/grub/test/ which should have the fix for this? Yes, all of the affected machines have at least 1TB of disk, although I have no storage servers smaller than that to test on; the small ones are still booting via LILO. I downloaded and installed the test package; grub-install ran to completion and the machine was able to reboot without a boot floppy. Thanks! Okay, this is in grub-0.93-3 |