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bug #34973: No boot linux partitions in second hard drive

Submitted by:  Jorge A. García <kamesennin>
Submitted on:  Sat 03 Dec 2011 05:39:24 AM UTC  
 
Category: BootingSeverity: Major
Priority: 5 - NormalItem Group: None
Status: InvalidPrivacy: Public
Assigned to: NoneOriginator Name: Jorge A. García
Open/Closed: ClosedRelease: 
Release: otherReproducibility: None
Planned Release: None

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Sun 03 Jun 2012 01:02:03 PM UTC, comment #6:

It has good indication that it's a BIOS bug and I got no response to my request to try to use GRUB own disk modules. Closing.

Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder>
Project Administrator
Fri 20 Jan 2012 11:53:55 AM UTC, comment #5:

This is probably the BIOS limitation or hardware problem (perhaps disk taking too long to respond) then. I'd try using ata or ahci diskmodule or playing with BIOS config.

Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder>
Project Administrator
Sat 24 Dec 2011 07:00:10 PM UTC, comment #4:

No. In fact, the recovery shell it couldn't detect the second hard drive with set command.

Jorge A. García <kamesennin>
Fri 23 Dec 2011 05:05:40 PM UTC, comment #3:

Are you able to see the disk in question in recovery shell? (ls)

Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder>
Project Administrator
Fri 23 Dec 2011 04:44:31 PM UTC, comment #2:

No, the UUID didn't change after the upgrade or installation of new distros in any of the hard drives.

Jorge A. García <kamesennin>
Fri 23 Dec 2011 10:58:13 AM UTC, comment #1:

Do your UUIDs change after such installs? (use blkid to check)

Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder>
Project Administrator
Sat 03 Dec 2011 05:39:24 AM UTC, original submission:

I have a PC that worked with no problems previous versions of Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot, with two SATA Hard drives, the first with Windows/Dell restore partitions and the second with a NTFS partition and Ext3 (or 4) for Linux/Swap.
When I upgraded the distribution to Oneiric (grub 1.99 I think), I didn't get any error message. But when I rebooted the system, I get an error message from Grub "Error: No such device" + an UUID number and the grub rescue prompt.

Until I know, Grub loader always was installed in sda and grub in sdb linux partitions and worked fine with this configuration until the upgrade.

After that issue, I couldn't boot the computer under windows neither linux, I re-made the MBR with windows rescue disc, and re-installed linux in the first hard drive and now works with no problem, but when I tried to install another distro in the second hard drive I received the same error message from grub: "No such device " + an UUID number. I needed to run a grub-repair disc or a update-grub in order to make the system bootable again after another distro installation. I looked for the bugs reports but only the bug #34344 is slightly similar and recently the bug #34965, but I don't have problem with UUIDs or booting after grub re-configuration (grub-repair or update-grub).

I can't give an interpretation to the results of commands such as strace grub-probe --device /dev/sda --target=abstraction but in the first line of the output says "grub-probe: information: can't open <</boot/grub/device.map>>. So I looked for that file and there wasn't any place. After that, I re-made the file with the grub-mkdevicemap command and update-grub after, this is the contents of device.map

(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5002AALX-00J37A0_WD-WCAYUX024342
(hd1) /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD2500JS-08NCB1_WD-WCANK9267554

Nevertheless, after the creation of device.map file, the unbootable partitions in the second hard drive continues. Even in the grub boot menu are visible the new distros items but they aren't bootable and when I selected one of this distros I get now "No such device. No such partition. You need to load the kernel first" new error message.
I understand that I have grub 1.99 from the final release of Ubuntu CD. Ubuntu in the first hard drive works with no problems even I can explore and read the files contained in the "unrecognized" partitions in the second hard drive.

Jorge A. García <kamesennin>

 

Attached Files
file #24533:  grub-probe.txt added by kamesennin (6KiB - text/plain)
file #24534:  recheck.txt added by kamesennin (300B - text/plain)
file #24535:  strace.txt added by kamesennin (103KiB - text/plain)

 

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