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FS#775 - Install freezes on grub installation with XFS

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Eduardo Lopes (eduol) - Sunday, 18 April 2004, 00:19 GMT
Last edited by Judd Vinet (judd) - Sunday, 18 April 2004, 18:15 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Installation
Status Closed
Assigned To Judd Vinet (judd)
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.6 Widget
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I´m trying to install Arch in a IDE HD with 3 partitions (Win ME, XFS and swap) and the installation of grub on /dev/discs/disc0/disc (MBR) doesn´t finish. The same config installs without problems when using ext3fs instead of XFS
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Closed by  Judd Vinet (judd)
Tuesday, 24 August 2004, 02:14 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Pink Chick (Pink Chick) - Thursday, 22 April 2004, 17:53 GMT
I noticed the same, with xfs and jfs. Luckily, I found out, if you configure and install lilo first, you can configure and install grub.
Maybe the grub procedure can't write the mbr?

One more reason might be, that the grub menu entries are wrong.

This is what arch creates, f.e. if you have a /boot partition on drive one, partition one, and / as root in drive four, partition one:

# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux [kernel26]
root (hd3,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/discs/disc3/part1 ro

Notice that the root (hd3,0) is completely wrong. This configuration is only working, because the kernel option was enriched with the correct option (hd0,0). But this is no grub syntax. It works, anyhow.

This is how it has to be, as the grub option 'root' means the 'root' of the kernel, in the meaning of it's base drive/partition:

# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux [kernel26]
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/discs/disc3/part1 ro
Comment by Eduardo Lopes (eduol) - Thursday, 22 April 2004, 23:37 GMT
I double checked the menu entries and they are right. Besides that, the same menu entries work with ext3fs, so, I think (and hope) the first workaround will do the job. I´ll try it and try to find out if it´s a grub problem or Archlinux specific.
Comment by Judd Vinet (judd) - Friday, 23 April 2004, 00:14 GMT
I've had this problem before too, and I can't figure it out. If you switch to another VC and do the grub install manually (using the identical steps that the setup script uses), then it works fine.
Comment by july (july) - Thursday, 19 August 2004, 13:56 GMT
when i first install arch (over old mandrake, with reiserfs partitions) i choose grub and it was ok..
but becouse of my mistake, i reinstall it (in within 20 minutes) and then the grub install fail, but lilo was ok


p.s. the arch verison is 0.6
Comment by Judd Vinet (judd) - Tuesday, 24 August 2004, 02:13 GMT
This is fixed in 0.7-beta1

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