While installing F17 PPC64 alpha on Juno IOCL LPAR on multipath disk with textmode, after successful installation system could not boot and get dropped to grub> prompt. --- captured from console ---- Elapsed time since release of system processors: 3082 mins 33 secs Welcome to GRUB! GNU GRUB version 2.00~beta2 Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists possible device or file completions. grub> --- More detail information/ Steps to reproduce ---- 1) System was having one native disk and four multipath disk attached. 2) Native disk (/dev/sda) was installed with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 (ppc64) - Kernel 3.0.13-0.27-ppc64 3) While installation from DVD rom , selected mpathb only to install [ ] sda 21504 MB (AIX VDASD) [*] mpathb 10240 MB (AIX VDASD) [ ] mpathc 10240 MB (AIX VDASD) [ ] mpathd 10240 MB (AIX VDASD) [ ] mpathe 10240 MB (AIX VDASD) 4) After successful installation , while selecting to boot from multipath disk from SMS menu, it got dropped to grub> prompt and did not boot . PowerPC Firmware Version AL740_083 SMS 1.7 (c) Copyright IBM Corp. 2000,2008 All rights reserved. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Select Device Device Current Device Number Position Name 1. - Interpartition Logical LAN ( loc=U8246.L2C.100050A-V3-C4-T1 ) 2. - SCSI 20 GB Harddisk, part=1 () ( loc=U8246.L2C.100050A-V3-C2-T1-L8100000000000000 ) 3. - SCSI CD-ROM ( loc=U8246.L2C.100050A-V3-C2-T1-L8600000000000000 ) 4. - SCSI 9 GB Harddisk, part=1 () ( loc=U8246.L2C.100050A-V3-C2-T1-L8200000000000000 ) 5. - SCSI 9 GB Harddisk, part=1 () ( loc=U8246.L2C.100050A-V3-C5-T1-L8100000000000000 ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Navigation keys: M = return to Main Menu ESC key = return to previous screen X = eXit System Management Services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Type menu item number and press Enter or select Navigation key:4 PowerPC Firmware Version AL740_083 SMS 1.7 (c) Copyright IBM Corp. 2000,2008 All rights reserved. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Select Task SCSI 9 GB Harddisk, part=1 () ( loc=U8246.L2C.100050A-V3-C2-T1-L8200000000000000 ) 1. Information 2. Normal Mode Boot 3. Service Mode Boot NOTE: For detail installation log , please see attached file "miz03-f17-multipath-install-log.txt" Verified this bug on Fedora 17 Beta PPC64 and this issue is still reproducible. It got dropped to grub prompt after installation. grub> ls / lost+found/ grub/ grub2/ initramfs-3.3.4-4.fc17.ppc64.img System.map-3.3.4-4.fc17.ppc64 config-3.3. 4-4.fc17.ppc64 vmlinuz-3.3.4-4.fc17.ppc64 grub> ls /grub2 themes/ device.map grub.cfg.new grubenv powerpc-ieee1275/ locale/ fonts/ grub
Created attachment 584400 [details] miz03-f17-multipath-install-log.txt
Created attachment 584401 [details] grub-set-all-debug-ls-l-output.txt
------- Comment From pfsmorigo.com 2012-05-14 15:50 EDT------- The "bad memory access" from ls output was solved in r4334: http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/grub/trunk/grub/revision/4334
------- Comment From clnperez.com 2012-12-04 17:25 EDT------- As this should be fixed by now, closing our our side.