Bug 124604 – GLIException: BootloaderError :FATAL: _configure_grub:

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description Olavi 2006-03-01 23:19:45 UTC]

Installed from 2006.0 x86 livecd on PII350 computer (80 GB Western Digital hard disk, Realtek  NIC-s, Tyan motherboard).

The computers BIOS shows that the HD is smaller than actual size, but in the installer the whole disk is seen and can be partitioned.

Installation failed with following results:

GLI: March 01 2006 23:40:48 - Emerged the selected bootloader.
GLI: March 01 2006 23:40:48 - Found a mbr device: /dev/hda
GLI: March 01 2006 23:40:49 - Exception received during 'Configuring and installing bootloader': BootloaderError :FATAL: _configure_grub: Error making the new device map.
GLI: March 01 2006 23:40:49 - Traceback (most recent call last):
GLI: March 01 2006 23:40:49 - File "/opt/installer/GLIClientController.py", line 165, in run
    self._install_steps[self._install_step]['function']()
GLI: March 01 2006 23:40:49 - File "/opt/installer/templates/x86ArchitectureTemplate.py", line 50, in install_bootloader
    self._configure_grub()
GLI: March 01 2006 23:40:49 - File "/opt/installer/templates/x86ArchitectureTemplate.py", line 417, in _configure_grub
    self._gather_grub_drive_info()
GLI: March 01 2006 23:40:49 - File "/opt/installer/templates/x86ArchitectureTemplate.py", line 522, in _gather_grub_drive_info
    self.grub_boot_drive = self._map_device_to_grub_device(self.boot_device)
GLI: March 01 2006 23:40:49 - File "/opt/installer/templates/x86ArchitectureTemplate.py", line 633, in _map_device_to_grub_device
    raise GLIException("BootloaderError", 'fatal', '_configure_grub', "Error making the new device map.")
GLI: March 01 2006 23:40:49 - GLIException: BootloaderError :FATAL: _configure_grub: Error making the new device map.

[Comment 1 Olavi 2006-03-01 23:21:27 UTC]

Created attachment 81089 [details]
installer.log

[Comment 2 Olavi 2006-03-01 23:23:55 UTC]

Created attachment 81090 [details]
installprofile.xml

[Comment 3 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2006-03-04 22:16:23 UTC]

Update to the latest CVS snapshot by opening a terminal and running '/opt/installer/misc/updategtkfe'. Turn on verbose mode on the "Misc" tab of the Pre-install configuration screen. If the error happens again, attach your installer.log and installprofile.xml

[Comment 4 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2006-03-06 07:51:42 UTC]

Can you update to CVS and try to reproduce?

[Comment 5 Olavi 2006-03-07 22:37:50 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Can you update to CVS and try to reproduce?
> 

Meantime I have updated BIOS, so the BIOS detects correct hard disk size. If this doesn't interfere something so that error won't appear at all then I can try again. Maybe I have time for this in a week or so, until then I am trying using Gentoo in Debian chroot.

[Comment 6 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2006-03-12 09:57:53 UTC]

Apparently, this happens when you select GRP and ~arch. This has been "fixed" in CVS. It won't let you select ~arch if GRP is selected.

[Comment 7 Jeffrey Forman (RETIRED) 2006-03-24 13:46:38 UTC]

Moving to Release Media/Installer.

[Comment 8 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2006-04-01 07:41:37 UTC]

*** Bug 127719 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 9 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2006-05-05 11:59:41 UTC]

*** Bug 132175 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***