The Installer (console and GUI) of the 2006.0 LiveCD doesn
The Installer (console and GUI) of the 2006.0 LiveCD doesn´t set a partition active when installing with the recomandet setup on a absolutely clean disk, so the system will not reboot. I had to set bootflag on /boot manualy to set partition active and boot the system.
Ooh, I don't think we ever considered that. I assume you didn't select "Install in MBR" for the bootloader.
(In reply to comment #1) > Ooh, I don't think we ever considered that. I assume you didn't select "Install > in MBR" for the bootloader. > I
(In reply to comment #1) > Ooh, I don't think we ever considered that. I assume you didn't select "Install > in MBR" for the bootloader. > I´m absolutely shure I´ve selected it. I´ve even done this manually once again, to be shure, grum is in MBR. But I´l test it once more
If grub is in the MBR, the /boot partition does not need to be marked as active. Only a MSDOS MBR required the boot partition to be marked active so it knows where to jump to next.
this is likely an issue of accidentally installing grub to the wrong drive or a case where BIOS isn't set to boot the drive. If install to MBR is selected, the partition will always be bootable. please look into the issue further and get back to us with more information. if you get your system bootable, your installation log should be in /var/log/installer.log on your new system. attach that to this bug to help us diagnose this issue.
ok, after further testing I have a litle result. I
ok, after further testing I have a litle result. I´ve testet the installer on another pc and had exactly the same problem. So I decidet to do one more test, and did the harddisk of the testpc in my desktoppc, after powering on the system was booting (until the kernel hung up,but that was the problem of only changing the harddisk and no bug). So i think the 2 testpc´s aren´t able to boot, because they both have an old BIOS. here´s the logfile: GLI: March 07 2006 21:00:44 - Setting root password. GLI: March 07 2006 21:00:47 - Livecd root password set. GLI: March 07 2006 21:00:58 - Portmap started. GLI: March 07 2006 21:00:58 - Completed pre_install steps GLI: March 07 2006 21:04:10 - partitioning: Processing /dev/hda... GLI: March 07 2006 21:04:10 - Partitioning: Second pass... GLI: March 07 2006 21:04:10 - Partitioning: Third pass....creating partitions GLI: March 07 2006 21:04:10 - Drive has 12504240 sectors GLI: March 07 2006 21:04:10 - Partition 1 has 100MB GLI: March 07 2006 21:04:10 - Start sector calculated to be 0 GLI: March 07 2006 21:04:10 - End sector calculated to be 204800 GLI: March 07 2006 21:04:10 - Adding primary partition 1 from 0 to 204800 GLI: March 07 2006 21:04:11 - Formatting partition 1 as ext2 with: mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda1 GLI: March 07 2006 21:04:11 - Try 1 failed formatting partition /dev/hda1...waiting 5 seconds GLI: March 07 2006 21:04:16 - Formatting partition 1 as ext2 with: mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda1 GLI: March 07 2006 21:04:17 - Partition 2 has 244MB GLI: March 07 2006 21:04:17 - Start sector calculated to be 204801 GLI: March 07 2006 21:04:17 - End sector calculated to be 704513 GLI: March 07 2006 21:04:17 - Adding primary partition 2 from 204801 to 704513 GLI: March 07 2006 21:04:18 - Formatting partition 2 as linux-swap with: mkswap /dev/hda2 GLI: March 07 2006 21:04:18 - Partition 3 has 5761MB GLI: March 07 2006 21:04:18 - Start sector calculated to be 704514 GLI: March 07 2006 21:04:18 - End sector calculated to be 12503042 GLI: March 07 2006 21:04:18 - Adding primary partition 3 from 704514 to 12503042 GLI: March 07 2006 21:04:19 - Formatting partition 3 as ext3 with: mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda3 GLI: March 07 2006 21:04:44 - Mounted mountpoint: / GLI: March 07 2006 21:04:48 - Created mountpoint /boot GLI: March 07 2006 21:04:48 - Mounted mountpoint: /boot GLI: March 07 2006 22:09:25 - Stage3 was generated successfully GLI: March 07 2006 22:09:32 - fstab configured. GLI: March 07 2006 22:09:32 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/rc.conf GLI: March 07 2006 22:09:32 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/conf.d/clock GLI: March 07 2006 22:09:32 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/conf.d/keymaps GLI: March 07 2006 22:09:32 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf GLI: March 07 2006 22:09:32 - Config files updated using etc-update. make.conf/fstab/rc.conf restored. GLI: March 07 2006 22:09:32 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf GLI: March 07 2006 22:09:32 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf GLI: March 07 2006 22:09:32 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf GLI: March 07 2006 22:09:32 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf GLI: March 07 2006 22:09:32 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf GLI: March 07 2006 22:09:32 - Make.conf configured GLI: March 07 2006 22:09:33 - Chroot environment ready. GLI: March 07 2006 22:20:58 - Portage tree install was custom. GLI: March 07 2006 22:21:05 - Root Password set on the new system. GLI: March 07 2006 22:21:06 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/conf.d/clock GLI: March 07 2006 22:21:06 - Timezone set. GLI: March 07 2006 22:21:06 - Starting emerge_kernel GLI: March 07 2006 22:24:46 - Coldplug emerged. Now they should be added to the boot runlevel. GLI: March 07 2006 22:24:46 - Added coldplug to runlevel boot GLI: March 07 2006 22:24:47 - -- MARK -- GLI: March 07 2006 22:24:47 - Starting build_kernel GLI: March 07 2006 22:26:08 - Added syslog-ng to runlevel default GLI: March 07 2006 22:26:08 - Logging daemon installed: syslog-ng GLI: March 07 2006 22:28:18 - Added vixie-cron to runlevel default GLI: March 07 2006 22:28:18 - Cron daemon installed and configured: vixie-cron GLI: March 07 2006 22:28:19 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/conf.d/hostname GLI: March 07 2006 22:28:19 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/conf.d/domainname GLI: March 07 2006 22:28:19 - Added domainname to runlevel default GLI: March 07 2006 22:28:19 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/hosts GLI: March 07 2006 22:28:20 - Added net.eth0 to runlevel default GLI: March 07 2006 22:28:20 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/conf.d/net GLI: March 07 2006 22:29:14 - Emerged the selected bootloader. GLI: March 07 2006 22:29:15 - Found a mbr device: /dev/hda GLI: March 07 2006 22:29:17 - Output of Kernel Names: /mnt/gentoo/boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 GLI: March 07 2006 22:29:17 - Output of Initrd Names: /mnt/gentoo/boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 GLI: March 07 2006 22:29:17 - Bootloader: the three information gathering commands have been run GLI: March 07 2006 22:29:17 - Grub installed and configured. Contents of grub.conf: default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Gentoo Linux root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda3 initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 GLI: March 07 2006 22:29:17 - Grub has not yet been run. If a normal install, it will now be run. GLI: March 07 2006 22:29:18 - Found a mbr device: /dev/hda GLI: March 07 2006 22:29:18 - Bootloader: grub has been installed! GLI: March 07 2006 22:29:29 - fstab configured. GLI: March 07 2006 22:29:29 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/rc.conf GLI: March 07 2006 22:29:29 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/conf.d/clock GLI: March 07 2006 22:29:29 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/conf.d/keymaps GLI: March 07 2006 22:29:29 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf GLI: March 07 2006 22:29:29 - Config files updated using etc-update. make.conf/fstab/rc.conf restored. GLI: March 07 2006 22:29:31 - ERROR! Could not add to runlevel default. returned a bad status code.
Not much we can do about that :) Thanks for the additional testing, though.
Moving to Release Media/Installer.
