Installation goes as usual, but when I go to reboot, I get this message: Grub Loading Please Wait Error 17 I tried to install a second time, but I got the same results. I checked /var/log and no install log was created this time Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Do a clean install 2.Finish the install, then reboot 3.
I should also note that I installed Beta2 on the same computer using the exact same options and grub installed perfectly fine (although there were other issues).
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 230998 ***
How is this a duplicate when I'm using 2008.0r1. Read the version please.
Sorry, misfire :P This is a completely different issue. What hardware is this? That error usually means that it found the partition but it was of a type that wasn't recognized. Can you attach the output of 'fdisk -l <your drive>' from the LiveCD?
Athlon 64 5000+ BE Gigabyte GA-MA770-DS3 Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 750GB SATA II Hard Drive Diamond Viper Radeon HD 3870 Samsung 22x SATA DVD Burner, Asus SATA DVD-Rom Drive My Harddive has 4 partitions: sda1 & sda 2 are NTFS. sda 3 is linux swap and sda4 is the root partition. Here's a brief history: 1) I tried to install Gentoo 2008.0 beta2, but I canceled before it ended 2) I installed Ubuntu 8.04. 3) I found out that the beta2 installer wasn't broken,the GUI just didn't update, so I installed it again - this time from the console. It installed fine (although I'm sure you've heard about the lib corruption issues). 4) I attempted to install 2008.0 final, but I came across the bug I reported yesterday. 5) I attempted to install 2008.0r1, but when I reboot I get the error that I reported. 6) About 30 mins ago I gave the install one last try. This try, I switched the partitions back (root back to sda4 and swap back to sda3), but it still doesn't boot.This time, I get Error 5 instead of Error 17. Probably a little more information than you wanted, but hey, it won't kill anyone ;P Here's what happens when I do what you ask: gentoo@livecd ~ $ sudo mount /dev/sda4 / gentoo@livecd ~ $ fdisk -l /dev/sda bash: fdisk: command not found I should also mention that my /boot folder only shows 3 items: the initramfs, the kernel, and the System.map. Is it supposed to be like that?
(In reply to comment #5) > gentoo@livecd ~ $ sudo mount /dev/sda4 / You just mounted your /dev/sda4 over the top of the LiveCD root. That doesn't do anything useful :P Try mounting it at /mnt/gentoo. > gentoo@livecd ~ $ fdisk -l /dev/sda > bash: fdisk: command not found It needs to be run as root (or with sudo).
Bah... left off the sudo on the second command.. sorry about that. Here we go: gentoo@livecd ~ $ sudo mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/gentoo gentoo@livecd ~ $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 750.1 GB, 750155292160 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0005d793 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 32635 262140606 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 32636 65270 262140637+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda3 65271 65531 2096482+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda4 65532 91201 206194275 83 Linux
I noticed that I made a mistake. Grub was outputting Error 2, not Error 5. Sorry for any time that I may have wasted. Anyways, at this point I've figured that my partition table got screwed somehow, possibly by the first version of 2008.0. Don't worry about it, I'll read a bit more and see if I can get it straightened out myself. I'm sure you're quite busy with more important things to do. Thanks for the time, and thanks for the help.
As an addendum to this bug, the 2008.0-r1 release has an issue where the grub bootsplash image is missing. We are working on it.
I enjoy a multi-disk multi-boot workstation: sda1: Master_Boot sdc1: Gentoo /boot sdc3: Gentoo / Installing from 2008.0-r1 liveCD for amd64, after successful installation, reboot didn't work. Booted SystemRescueCD, I was able to install grub onto (hd2) as well as (hd2,0). Booting (hd2) via BIOS from sdc MBR loads stage 1.5, then yields "Error 2". Chainloading into (hd2,0) enters into grub menu. Setting root to (hd2,0) and commanding "boot": grub requests kernel to be specified.
(In reply to comment #10) Addendum: Re-Booting SystemRescueCD and deleting the splash entry in grub.conf did _not_ solve the problem.
(In reply to comment #10) Addendum: specifying "kenel (hd2,0)/kernel-genkernel-..." directly in grub yields "Error 2: Bad file or directory type"
(In reply to comment #10) Addendum: Re-Booting SystemRescueCD, chroot-ing into the newly installed gentoo, commanding "grub" yields: "grub: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
(In reply to comment #10) SOLVED: - chroot into newly installed gentoo - emerge --sync - emerge -av gentoolkit - checked with revdep-rebuild -a : o.k. - emerge -av grub - - note hint at end of install: - - install grub files via "--config" - reboot : initially works - BUT: More errors to follow: "network interface eth0 does not exist ..." Thus: Built my own custom kernel ... adapted grub.conf : boot o.k. Folks, for any beginner with Gentoo, this is _not_ really funny.
So far, you're the only one to report this issue. Perhaps it's just an oddity with your setup.
(In reply to comment #15) > Perhaps it's just an oddity with your setup. ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe, AMD 64 X2 5200,4 x S-ATA - what do you call "odd" with such an ordinary setup? The only "oddity" is that I don't want Gentoo to be installed onto the first harddisk. > So far, you're the only one to report this issue. Do you have any positive report of installing into another disk than the first? I tried again - this time, onto /dev/sda2 ; same negative result. Thereby I tried really hard to discover any option to explicitly tell the installer where to setup grub. I could not find any. If there is one, I would greatly appreciate a hint.
I have encountered the same error, and this has left my machine unbootable (as a temporary measure, I have installed grml to have a grub). I am using 2008.0 live CD Everything goes fine until after portage installation. Then I get an error saying there is no kernel in boot (nothing named kernel*, or something like that). But installer goes on and then tries to install grub, which then fails with some other error. I am trying some magic right now. If it works, I will report.
That's not a similar error. That is a completely different problem that was fixed with the 2008.0-r1 LiveCDs.
Oh! Sorry :) Will open a new bug report soon...
Why would you open a new bug report when Andrew said that it was FIXED with the -r1 CDs? *grin*
Ok, update: see http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-700523-highlight-.html I am waiting for a confirmation before I open this bug.
(In reply to comment #20) > ... it was FIXED with the -r1 CDs? I doubt your > *grin* is a constructive help. Please, cf. my comment 14. My questions in comment 16 are still unanswered. Yours respectfully Manfred
In response to comment 14: If the kernel doesn't have your network device, i'm not sure what there is to do except rebuild your kernel. It is not the fault of the installer. In response to comment 16: gli-dialog in advanced mode can let you specify the drive and/or MBR settings for the bootloader. don't underestimate your BIOS's ability to choose which drive boots first.
(In reply to comment #23) > In response to comment 14: If the kernel doesn't have your network device, i'm > not sure what there is to do except rebuild your kernel. It is not the fault > of the installer. Booting the liveCD, I had no problems to reach the net - even via default DHCP ... As reported, the problem arouse only _after_ reboot. To me, this _is_ an issue. Or, more precise, not to me, as pointed out above, but for the intended user group being the goal of a LiveCD + graphical Installer. > In response to comment 16: gli-dialog in advanced mode can let you specify the > drive and/or MBR settings for the bootloader. Thanks a lot for your valuable hint - I will try to find that 'advanced mode' and will report again. > don't underestimate your BIOS's ability to choose which drive boots first. I do exploit that every other day ... Sorry, I didn't get what you wanted to point out with this hint and what it has to do with this bug report ?
(In reply to comment #23) > ... gli-dialog in advanced mode ... I re-tried, but until "installing grub ..." I could not identify this option. Would you be so kind to exactly define where to find it, so that I can re-test as promised? Thanks a lot in advance.
(My unanswered question from comment #16) PING @ Chris Gianelloni , Preston Cody : > Do you have any positive report of installing into another disk than the first?
I re-installed again, this time preparing the /boot partition with mkfs.ext2 -I 128 in order to rule out the 128bit / 256bit hassle introduced with new grub versions. Still: - chainload from /dev/sdb1: Error 13 ==> no bootloader installed here - BIOS - boot from /dev/sdb MBR: grub starts, but Error 15: file not found ==> installer installed grub here, but ... although: mammut mnt # mkdir sdb1 mammut mnt # mount /dev/sdb1 sdb1 mammut mnt # cd sdb1 mammut sdb1 # ll insgesamt 26M lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 21. Jul 2008 boot -> . drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4,0K 21. Jul 2008 grub -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22M 21. Jul 2008 initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.24-gentoo-r7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2,4M 21. Jul 2008 kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.24-gentoo-r7 drwx------ 2 root root 16K 21. Jul 08:27 lost+found -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,4M 21. Jul 2008 System.map-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.24-gentoo-r7 And again: I coulkd not identify _any_ option to switch into "gli-dialog in advanced mode". PING @ Preston Cody (c.f. Comment #23) : > Would you be so kind to exactly define where to find it ... ? There are more errors: - selecting keyboard map /= default does not work; e.g. selecting "de": - - the selection boxes still expect an american kbd, - - the terminal as well, ... - there is no hint how to enter "root" mode ( sudo su -) - starting the Browser has problems, only works at second click at firefox icon, - - then results into calling a non-existing page ... - the installer refuses to (re-) install into fs with any data in it, - - but no option to (re-) format the fs is available; - - people have to be knowledgeable enough to enter sh and mkfs ... but these are really secondary, compared to the fact that the newly installed system not come ing up at all. As long as people in charge continue preferring to bury their head in the sand, wasting effort into pleading "this bug doesn't exist" instead of helping investigate to _solve_ it, for myself I will retreat to stick to manual install (i.e. SystemRescueCD, Gentoo Handbook and Funtoo stages), and advice any interested linux novice to enjoy his start with a distribution that just installs. I'm really very, very sorry. If - one day - the RelEng team is prepared to value the setup of a team of test people and documented (non-mainstream) test setups _and_ is prepared to take their responses seriously, I will happily return and volunteer. Kind regards Manfred
(ADDENDUM to comment #27) I disconnected my first S-ATA, such the former /dev/sdb became the first hard disk. Re-Installing: again entering into "grub >". --- Re-Installing manually from an existing Gentoo (2007) installation, chrooting, env-update yielded # env-update Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/env-update", line 27, in ? import portage File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage.py", line 10043, in ? init_legacy_globals() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage.py", line 9999, in init_legacy_globals db = create_trees(**kwargs) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage.py", line 9938, in create_trees config_incrementals=portage_const.INCREMENTALS) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage.py", line 1380, in __init__ allow_sourcing=True) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage_util.py", line 356, in getconfig raise portage_exception.ParseError(str(e)+" in "+mycfg) portage_exception.ParseError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf' in /etc/make.conf
(ADDENDUM to comment #28) > Re-Installing manually from an existing Gentoo (2007) installation, exactly as in "Gentoo Handbook fopr amd64", u8sing official stage-3 and portage-latest of today.
(In reply to comment #28) > '/usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf' in /etc/make.conf Yes, this is what happens when you blindly copy the make.conf from another box and don't pay attention to what's actually in it. This is completely your fault.
(In reply to comment #30) Damned - overlooked it - I feel embarrassed - shortage of sleep ... Sorry. Nevertheless, my main concern (and of this bug) is with the _first_ part of Comment #28.
LivCD 2008-r1 i686 and amd64 LiveCD doesn't Install Grub Properly, use install-dialog. Tried SystemRescueCD as it was written here earlier: - chroot into newly installed gentoo - emerge --sync - emerge -av gentoolkit - checked with revdep-rebuild -a : o.k. - emerge -av grub - - note hint at end of install: - - install grub files via "--config" - reboot : initially works - BUT: More errors to follow: "network interface eth0 does not exist ..." Result same. Tried different m/b and hdd. M/b: Asus P4P800SE (i686), GA-MA790FX-DS5 (amd64) HDD: Seagate IDE/Sata different volumes
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