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Ubuntu 6.06 installer crash - Bootloader config?

Bug #54139 reported by strangelove on 2006-07-26

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #47848: should warn at partitioning stage if /boot is on XFS. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubiquity (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Installer crashes at 96% while in the bootloader config stage when installed from a live CD.

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strangelove (kungfaux) wrote on 2006-07-26:

/var/log/installer/syslog Edit (26.0 KiB, text/plain)

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strangelove (kungfaux) wrote on 2006-07-26:

/var/log/partman Edit (342.6 KiB, text/plain)

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strangelove (kungfaux) wrote on 2006-07-26:

/var/log/syslog Edit (79.8 KiB, text/plain)

strangelove (kungfaux) on 2006-07-26

description:

updated

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Nicolas JEUDY (njeudy) wrote on 2006-08-04:

Hi, new install on my computer today, and same crash, same message. (with / in xfs filesystem)

So I try to configure / with ext3 and /home part with xfs, and no crash ...

I think / or /boot as to be configured with ext2 or ext3 file systeme and not with xfs.

Nicolas JEUDY

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strangelove (kungfaux) wrote on 2006-08-05:

Hi, glad to see you found a solution.

In the end i abandoned the live install CD and downloaded the alternate install disk which worked a charm. Think i may have needed to install lilo first then grub later on (for one reason or another i ended up doing that).

Strangely grub-install locks up pretty much every time i run it but it eventually it went right and i now have a nice grub boot loader with splash screen, xfs root and all... :)

Does making /boot an ext2 partition (with / as xfs) let you install with the live cd? If it does i guess thats a pretty good work around... Nice to have a separate /boot anyway i suppose.

-Jesse

strangelove (kungfaux) on 2006-08-05

description:

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strangelove (kungfaux) wrote on 2006-08-05:

OK looks like this problems definitely a grub + xfs /boot thing, it's been observed and confirmed in debian bug reports:

re: http://bugs.debian.org/243835

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The debian installer can install a system with / or /boot on XFS. When
it tries to install grub on such a system, the grub-install run hangs,
seemingly forever. The last thing output is "Probing devices to guess
BIOS drives." The cpu is pegged too. This has been reproduced on more
than one machine, and I found something that looked like the same
problem on google. I've seen it with both the 2.4.25 and 2.6.5 kernels.

We have put a guard in d-i to deal with this, it warns users that XFS
/boot (or root) will not work with grub. This is not an ideal solution,
users want to use XFS for these partitions.
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Perhaps something similar should be done here?

-Jesse

Vassilis Pandis (pandisv) on 2006-08-06

Changed in ubiquity:
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2006-09-18:

Indeed, that analysis is correct. This is also bug 47848, and it's fixed in 6.06.1.

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epintula (epintula) wrote on 2006-09-18: Re: [Bug 54139] Re: Ubuntu 6.06 installer crash - Bootloader config?

2006/9/18, Colin Watson <email address hidden>:
>
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 47848 ***
>
> Indeed, that analysis is correct. This is also bug 47848, and it's fixed
> in 6.06.1.
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 47848
> should warn at partitioning stage if /boot is on XFS
>
> --
> Ubuntu 6.06 installer crash - Bootloader config?
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/54139
>