alt installer: Running 'grub-install --no-floppy "(hd0)"' failed.

[Carl Karsten]

Binary package hint: grub-installer

daily alt installer

loader
Oct 8 00:14:39 debconf: <-- 0 OK
Oct 8 00:14:39 grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '(hd0)'
Oct 8 00:14:39 grub-installer: info: grub-install supports --no-floppy
Oct 8 00:14:39 grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install --no-
floppy "(hd0)"
Oct 8 00:14:39 grub-installer: You shouldn't call /sbin/grub-install. Please ca
ll /usr/sbin/grub-install instead!
Oct 8 00:14:39 grub-installer:
Oct 8 00:14:39 grub-installer: /dev/sdb1 does not have any corresponding BIOS d
rive.
Oct 8 00:14:39 grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install --no-floppy "(hd0
)"' failed.
Oct 8 00:14:39 debconf: --> SUBST grub-installer/grub-install-failed BOOTDEV (h
d0)

/target/boot/grub # df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 516452 36 516416 0% /dev
/dev/sdb1 10325748 3066020 6735208 31% /target
/dev/sdb1 10325748 3066020 6735208 31% /dev/.static/dev
tmpfs 516452 36 516416 0% /target/dev

/target/boot/grub # mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
/dev/sdb1 on /target type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered)
/dev/sdb1 on /dev/.static/dev type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered)
tmpfs on /target/dev type tmpfs (rw)
it

[Carl Karsten (carlfk)]

~ # chroot /target grub-install --no-floppy "(hd0)"
/dev/sdb1 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive.

~ # chroot /target grub-install --no-floppy "(hd0)" --root-directory=/ --recheck
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
Installing GRUB to (hd0) as (hd0)...
Installation finished. No error reported.
This is the contents of the device map //boot/grub/device.map.
Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect,
fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'.

(hd0) /dev/sda
(hd1) /dev/sdb

Before the install the box did not boot. It would hang at

bios POST...
Grub loading stage 1.5.
Grub loading, please wait
Error 2.

then I ran the ibex-alt-install, got the error, tried various grub commands, all would report an error until the last one containing --recheck. Then I rebooted. So I can not say for sure that the final one is the one that fixed it. There is a chance that something else fixed it that I am unaware of.

[Carl Karsten (carlfk)]

May be a duplicate of

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub-installer/+bug/262816

[Carl Karsten (carlfk)]

Used https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SmartBootManager to boot what it lists as the 2nd disk: HD1 - I have no idea which of my 2 disks that is. but picking that booted grub, and grub loaded my kernel, and the system came up. Here is what didn't work and what did:

juser@dhcp123:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4863 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x6d7f6d7f

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 4658 37415353+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 4659 4863 1646662+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 4659 4863 1646631 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 91201 732572001 83 Linux

juser@dhcp123:~$ sudo grub-install --no-floppy "(hd0)" --root-directory=/ --recheck
Installation finished. No error reported.
This is the contents of the device map //boot/grub/device.map.
Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect,
fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'.

(hd0) /dev/sda
(hd1) /dev/sdb

juser@dhcp123:~$ sudo reboot

Grub Error 1.5

SmartBootManager again 2nd disk: HD1

juser@dhcp123:~$ sudo grub-install --no-floppy "(hd1)" --root-directory=/ --recheck
[sudo] password for juser:
Installation finished. No error reported.
This is the contents of the device map //boot/grub/device.map.
Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect,
fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'.

(hd0) /dev/sda
(hd1) /dev/sdb
juser@dhcp123:~$ sudo reboot

This time it booted.

[Carl Karsten (carlfk)]

Hmm, my previous post is not about this bug. Problem is I can't find the bug it is for, but I am sure I reported it also about a year ago.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

Is this still an issue with 12.10?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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