Bug 359579 – sys-boot/grub-0.97-r10 doesn't work on KVM's virtio devices (/dev/vda) /w savedefault

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Charlie Page 2011-03-20 00:14:26 UTC]

Grub says there is a write error and refuses to boot on any entry that contains `savedefault`.
That kills all of the redundancy of having such options and forces manual intervention to boot.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create grub falls backs.
2.Attempt to boot from them.
3.
Actual Results:  
Booting hangs.

Expected Results:  
Booting is successful.


It would also seem logical that even with a write error, grub attempts to boot the final fallback entry.
[I am assuming this write error is grub attempting to write to the default file.]
This is on an ext3 partition on /dev/vda1.  [x86_64 with virtio disk]
Related bug(I bet):
http://bugs.gentoo.org/259613

[Comment 1 Charlie Page 2011-03-20 00:48:53 UTC]

I am using grub static, if that makes a difference, sorry forgot that when making the title.  x64 multi-lib

[Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2011-03-22 00:12:32 UTC]

Please post your `emerge --info' in a comment.

[Comment 3 Charlie Page 2011-03-22 02:54:53 UTC]

I chrooted into the instance instead of booting it, if this isn't enough I can boot into it.

!!! It seems that /proc is not mounted. You have been warned.
Portage 2.1.9.25 (unavailable, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.11.3-r0, 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 x86_                                                                64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.36-gentoo-r5-x86_64-with-gentoo-1.12.14
Timestamp of tree: Unknown
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.6.6-r2::gentoo, 3.1.3-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13::gentoo, 2.65-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/automake:  1.11.1::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20.1-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.10::gentoo
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.36.1::gentoo (sys-kernel/linux-headers)
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/bind                                                                 /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/                                                                eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc                                                                /terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs ccache distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages new                                                                s parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unme                                                                rge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ ftp://m                                                                irror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.iawnet.sandia.gov/pub/gentoo/"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl acpi alsa apache2 automount bash-completion bzip2 c++ caps chroot col                                                                ordiff cracklib curl dahdi dnotify exiscan-acl expat fam hpn idn inotify iproute                                                                2 jabber kvm ldap logrotate ncurses newt posix sdl sftp speex ssl syslog vde xml                                                                "
Unset:  EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND

[Comment 4 Mikle Kolyada (RETIRED) 2019-02-08 15:28:06 UTC]

grub:0 is gone