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bug #31964: Configuration error produced when running "sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg"

Submitter:  Frank Golden <fjgold>
Submitted:  Fri 24 Dec 2010 12:26:59 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Configuration Severity:  Major
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  None
Status:  Invalid Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Originator Name:  Frank Golden
Open/Closed:  Closed Release:  1.98
Release:  Reproducibility:  Every Time
Planned Release:  None

Sat 25 Dec 2010 12:51:05 PM UTC, comment #1: 

initrd line is taken from linux-boot-prober which already removes (..) from kernel line but doesn't do the same for initrd line. So I suggest contacting debian-boot folks who maintain linux-boot-prober.

Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder>
Group administrator
Fri 24 Dec 2010 12:26:59 AM UTC, original submission:  

I'm running GRUB2 on Ultimate Edition 2.8.
I recently installed Mandriva on a spare partition of my hard drive.

This is an ACER Aspire 5672 notebook with 500 GB HDD.

I installed Mandriva on sda8 and installed grub on the sda8 partition because my intent was to run

sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

in Ultimate Edition 2.8 to boot Mandriva from GRUB2 within Ultimate
Edition.

Running the command updated grub.conf to reflect the Mandriva install but there is an error in the entry that causes a kernel panic when trying to boot Mandriva.

If you look at the snippet of the file below you can clearly see the error.

menuentry "linux (on /dev/sda8)" {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,msdos8)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set f35b3b6e-5afd-4cdf-a453-4022690fecaf
linux /boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=f35b3b6e-5afd-4cdf-a453-4022690fecaf resume=UUID=17dce95a-3e0a-4a41-a41d-ff2dfbe373a6 splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,7)/boot/initrd.img
}

The last line entry should be initrd (hd0,8)/boot/initrd.img
and not the pictured initrd (hd0,7)/boot/initrd.img.

This of course causes the following kernel panic error message.

Kernel Panic -Not syncing : VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (0,0)

Boot stops there.

I could not find any info on how to correct this error but I manually edited the grub.conf file to correct this discrepancy.

This "fixed" the problem.

This is of course a workaround because updating GRUB2 from the repos in Ultimate Edition or preforming a kernel update will
update grub, reproducing the error.

If anyone here knows of  method to repair the grub.conf file permanently I would be grateful.

This issue also exists for PCLinuxOS.

Frank Golden <fjgold>

 

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