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PostPosted: Sun Jul 12, 2015 7:23 pm    Post subject: grub2-install fails with device node not found [solved] Reply with quote

Hi,

I'm struggling to get gentoo installed using RAID1 and LVM. I've been mostly following the handbook except for this. I'm using the livecd.

The 2 disks are SATA, formatted with MBR, have an 0xFD partition each.
In it they have an ext2 for /boot and an 0x8E for LVM, where / and everything else reside.

I added this to /etc/default/grub:
Code:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="domdadm dolvm"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="domdadm dolvm"

This is my /etc/fstab:
Code:
UUID=8a1fb425-e184-4408-a9d3-28022f162f77       /boot           ext2    noauto,noatime  1 2
UUID=ccf0fd59-587b-4000-bf23-a9bc715aeeb2       /               xfs     noatime         0 1
UUID=4a8d7f17-4e6e-4438-8083-c49119492dd6       /usr            ext4    defaults        0 2
UUID=8eebe331-6eef-4ab3-8156-f228b39d26c2       /var            ext4    defaults        0 2
UUID=e7360ee1-a95d-49b3-9941-271ef8e12345       none            swap    sw              0 0
/dev/cdrom                                      /mnt/cdrom      auto    noauto,ro       0 0

When i issue
Code:
grub2-install /dev/disk/by-id/ata-maker_model_serial
(which currently points to /dev/sda) it gives me this:
Code:
Installing for i386-pc platform.
device node not found
device node not found
device node not found
device node not found
device node not found
device node not found
grub2-install: error: disk `md0,1' not found.


/dev seems to be ok, it has md0, md0p1 and md0p2, as well as all the dm-* from LVM. I also tried
Code:
grub2-install --modules=mdraid09,lvm /dev/disk/by-id/ata-maker_model_serial
with the same result.

What am i missing?

EDIT

So there is a verbose flag:
Code:
grub2-install --verbose --recheck --modules=mdraid09,lvm /dev/disk/by-id/wwn-hexvalue
Produces this:
Code:

grub2-install: info: executing modprobe efivars 2>/dev/null.
grub2-install: info: Looking for /sys/firmware/efi ...
grub2-install: info: ... not found. Looking for /proc/device-tree ...
grub2-install: info: ... not found.
Installing for i386-pc platform.
grub2-install: info: cannot open `/boot/grub/device.map': No such file or directory.
grub2-install: info: copying `/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/ahci.mod' -> `/boot/grub/i386-pc/ahci.mod'.
...
grub2-install: info: cannot open `/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/efiemu32.o': No such file or directory.
grub2-install: info: copying `/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/efiemu64.o' -> `/boot/grub/i386-pc/efiemu64.o'.
grub2-install: info: cannot open `/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/efiemu64.o': No such file or directory.
...
grub2-install: info: copying `/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo' -> `/boot/grub/locale/tg.mo'.
grub2-install: info: cannot open `/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo': No such file or directory.
grub2-install: info: copying `/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo' -> `/boot/grub/locale/et.mo'.
grub2-install: info: cannot open `/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo': No such file or directory.
...
grub2-install: info: /dev/md0p1 is not present.
grub2-install: info: changing current directory to /dev.
grub2-install: info: changing current directory to VolGroup.
grub2-install: info: changing current directory to /dev.
grub2-install: info: changing current directory to VolGroup.
grub2-install: info: /dev/sda1 is not present.
grub2-install: info: Looking for /dev/sda1.
grub2-install: info: /dev/sda is a parent of /dev/sda1.
device node not found
grub2-install: info: /dev/sda1 starts from 2048.
grub2-install: info: opening the device hostdisk//dev/sda.
grub2-install: info: drive = 0.
grub2-install: info: the size of hostdisk//dev/sda is 1953525168.
grub2-install: info: drive = 0.
grub2-install: info: the size of hostdisk//dev/sda is 1953525168.
grub2-install: info: Scanning for DISKFILTER devices on disk hostdisk//dev/sda.
grub2-install: info: Scanning for mdraid1x devices on disk hostdisk//dev/sda.
grub2-install: info: Scanning for mdraid09_be devices on disk hostdisk//dev/sda.
grub2-install: info: Scanning for mdraid09 devices on disk hostdisk//dev/sda.
[b]grub2-install: info: Found array md/md0.[/b]
grub2-install: info: Inserting hostdisk//dev/sda (+0,1953525168) into md/md0 (mdraid09)
.
grub2-install: info: drive = 0.
grub2-install: info: the size of hostdisk//dev/sda is 1953525168.
grub2-install: info: Scanning for DISKFILTER devices on disk hostdisk//dev/sda.
grub2-install: info: Scanning for mdraid1x devices on disk hostdisk//dev/sda.
device node not found
grub2-install: info: Scanning for mdraid09_be devices on disk hostdisk//dev/sda.
grub2-install: info: Scanning for mdraid09 devices on disk hostdisk//dev/sda.
grub2-install: info: Inserting hostdisk//dev/sda (+2048,1953523120) into md/md0 (mdraid09)
...
grub2-install: info: Inserting hostdisk//dev/sdc (+0,1953525168) into md/md0 (mdraid09)
...
grub2-install: info: Scanning for lvm devices on disk md/md0.
grub2-install: info: no LVM signature found.
...
grub2-install: info: Scanning for lvm devices on disk md/md0.
grub2-install: info: Found array VolGroup.
grub2-install: info: Inserting md/md0 (+526336,1952996608) into VolGroup (lvm)
...
grub2-install: info: Scanning for lvm devices on disk lvm/VolGroup-varLV.
[b]grub2-install: info: no LVM signature found[/b]
...
grub2-install: info: Scanning for lvm devices on disk lvm/VolGroup-rootLV.
grub2-install: info: no LVM signature found.
...
grub2-install: error: disk `md0,1' not found.


I don't see GRUB finding md0p1 (/boot), but it does see the LVM partitions which are inside md0p2, although it seems as though it doesn't recognize them.


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PostPosted: Mon Jul 13, 2015 11:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

is /boot on a separate partition or inside that lvm volume?

is /boot mounted? before issung grub install?
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 13, 2015 9:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

tw04l124 wrote:
is /boot on a separate partition or inside that lvm volume?

is /boot mounted? before issung grub install?


Both disks have a full-disk RAID automount partition (0xFD), the resulting raid device has two partitions:
* a regular linux partition with /boot
* an LVM partition with / and everything else inside.

Here's the output of mount:
Code:
(chroot) livecd / # mount
/dev/dm-0 on / type xfs (rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,sunit=64,swidth=128,noquota)
/dev/dm-1 on /usr type ext4 (rw,relatime,stripe=32768,data=ordered)
/dev/dm-2 on /var type ext4 (rw,relatime,stripe=32768,data=ordered)
/dev/md0p1 on /boot type ext2 (rw,relatime,errors=continue,user_xattr,acl)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=917167,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,gid=5,mode=620)
shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 14, 2015 6:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i doubt you can boot from a "fake" raid. How did you created this raid?

looks like fake raid but i could be wrong. AFAIK not bootable from fake raid.
http://linux.die.net/man/8/dmraid


Quote:
dmraid(8) - Linux man page
Name
dmraid - discover, configure and activate software (ATA)RAID



you can try with an usb stick and boot from an usb key. (grub and kernel + initramfs on usb stick)
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 14, 2015 9:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

tw04l124 wrote:
i doubt you can boot from a "fake" raid. How did you created this raid?


It's not fake raid, i have that disabled in the BIOS. I'm using software raid, created with
Code:
mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 --metadata=0.90 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-maker_model_serial1-part1 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-maker_model_serial2-part1
   mdadm: array /dev/md0 started.


And the content of /proc/mdstat:
Code:
Personalities : [raid10] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid0] [linear] [multipath]
md0 : active raid1 sdc1[1] sda1[0]
      976761472 blocks [2/2] [UU]
      bitmap: 0/8 pages [0KB], 65536KB chunk

unused devices: <none>


The dm-* in the mount output are the block devices created by LVM.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 6:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

seems doable

http://www.somedec.com/downloads/howto-bootable-linux-raid1.html
http://edoceo.com/howto/mdadm-raid1

=> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-888624-start-0.html
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 23, 2015 9:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I ended up fixing it, the big differences being GPT instead of MBR and creating a BIOS partition. So sad.
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