Install on SCSI disc generated wrong grub menu entries

[Russel Winder]

I have just installed Breezy Badger on a system with no IDE discs just a single
SCSI disc. The system does though have a compact flash and a memory stick
reader plugged into the USB hub of the monitor which is plugged into the machine:

|> lsscsi
[0:0:1:0] disk IBM DPSS-309170N S96H /dev/sda
[1:0:0:0] disk eUSB Memory Stick 5.0C /dev/sdc
[2:0:0:0] disk Generic STORAGE DEVICE 0119 /dev/sdb

When the install happened /dev/sdc1 was written as the boot device instead of
/dev/sda1 into the /boot/grub/menu.lst file. Manually editing the default in
the file and rerunning update-grub cured that problem.

I note though that during boot Breezy Badger has a long delay and then a BIOS
hand-off failure relating to ehci_hcd which presumably relates to the memory
stick device. So it seems /dev/sdc1 is still being used in some way during
boot. Debian Testing which was on the machine before Breezy Badger did not have
this problem but booted very quickly. Breezy Badger does boot so this is not
blocking but it is irritating. Very.

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Have you tried this on dapper to reproduce this error on dapper?

[lowlevel (lowlevel)]

I also had this problem with the dapper-6.04 flight 4 iso. I never looked to see if Ihad any card readers though... but during the install, the only harddrives available were sdc, sdd and sde while I was expecting sda, sdb and sdc.... I just shrugged it off and let the installer do its thing... (drive id's are 0, 1 and 2) ... I have an ide cdrom as well.. installed on the 2nd ide controller, as master... no other ide drives... Grub installed fine to (hd0) and it went to the first scsi disk as expected...after booting the installed system, the first harddrive was now sda, so grub wouldn't work without changing root=sdc2 to root=sda2 ... and I also had to boot the rescue mode, to manually edit fstab entries for sdc to sda.

...scsi controller btw is Adaptech 2940U2W incase anyones interested.

Guys, can we get vi on the rescue disc? ;) I hate nano.

[Joel Rosdahl (jrosdahl)]

Same problem for me with dapper flight 4 (the AMD64 ISO on a Dell Dimension 9150).

[Russel Winder (russel)]

No extra information on the original bug but just to report:

I upgraded this machine to Dapper by doing a dist upgrade and the machine no longer hangs awaiting hand-off during booting as it did previously. I assume kernel 2.6.15-23 is doing something different to kernel 2.6.12-10.

I did not have the two memory card readers connected when I did the upgrade from Breezy -> Dapper so it might actually be that rather than the different kernel per se.

If I boot 2.6.12-10 then it still has the problem that it has to await the BIOS hand-off.

[dave mallery (dave-mallery)]

hi

did a dapper install on a machine with the usb card reader installed and it
went perfectly.

thanks

dave

On 6/5/06, Russel Winder <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> No extra information on the original bug but just to report:
>
> I upgraded this machine to Dapper by doing a dist upgrade and the
> machine no longer hangs awaiting hand-off during booting as it did
> previously. I assume kernel 2.6.15-23 is doing something different to
> kernel 2.6.12-10.
>
> I did not have the two memory card readers connected when I did the
> upgrade from Breezy -> Dapper so it might actually be that rather than
> the different kernel per se.
>
> If I boot 2.6.12-10 then it still has the problem that it has to await
> the BIOS hand-off.
>
> --
> Install on SCSI disc generated wrong grub menu entries
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/26636
>

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[rathervague (del-rathervague)]

Ditto.. also had the same problem with an asus p4p800-e
After install, reboot hangs on grub_

Only thing i can say so far is that Fedora core 6 installed without fault! Though not sure thats the best solution specially if you want Ubuntu flavor like me!

[dave mallery (dave-mallery)]

hi

this ceased being a problem about 2 ubuntus ago..

it was caused by the installation kernel counting the usb disks before the
scsi hard disks.

no longer a problem here.

cheers

dave

On 5/8/07, rathervague <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Ditto.. also had the same problem with an asus p4p800-e
> After install, reboot hangs on grub_
>
> Only thing i can say so far is that Fedora core 6 installed without
> fault! Though not sure thats the best solution specially if you want
> Ubuntu flavor like me!
>
> --
> Install on SCSI disc generated wrong grub menu entries
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/26636
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug.
>

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[Sebastian Rode (sebastian-ro-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[dave mallery (dave-mallery)]

hi

this no longer happens. thanks.

how does one close a bug?

thanks

dave

On Jan 6, 2008 10:38 AM, Sebastian Rode <email address hidden> wrote:
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago. We were wondering is
> this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release?
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --
>
> Install on SCSI disc generated wrong grub menu entries
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/26636
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug.
>

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[Sebastian Rode (sebastian-ro-deactivatedaccount)]

This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this being fixed. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the revealed drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status. Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Feel free to submit any future bugs you may find.