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 Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2018 2:50 pm Post subject: no Grub screen on boot after fresh install |
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Had another SSD crash and I'm rebuilding the system. This is an older system, so nu efi or uefi, no systemd. Followed the handbook but after rebooting the pc there never comes the grub screen. I see the bios, then the areca raid card bios and then a black screen for a minute or so and then it justs reboots.
Now I do know that this pc has the habit of emunerating the HD's in a different order when booting from cdrom than when booting from HD. With the old Grub this was simple to change but I don't have any idea how to do this with Grub2.
There are 4 HD's in the system, they are listed as below when booting from cdrom:
sda: sits on the MB
sdb: also connected to the motherboard. This is the OS HD with root on sdb4
sdc: raid volume 0
sdd: raid volume 1
From previous experience with this pc, when booting from HD, the order is:
sda: raid volume 0
sdb: raid volume 1
sdc: my OS disk
sdd: the second sata disk on the MB.
Now when I look into grun.cfg I see
| Code: | | set root='hd1,gtp4' |
Is there a way to set the UUID here instead of 'hd1,gtp4'? Or am I to fast and is there something wrong before this?
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| Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2018 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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Spanik,
If you see the BIOS screens but don't get a grub menu, its grub that's in a mess.
| Code: | | set root='hd1,gtp4' |
is grubspeak for /boot, or at least, the partition where all the files needed to get started are.
With BIOS booting, the grub stage1 goes into the first 446 bytes of sector 0 on the boot drive.
Its modified at install time to find its stage1.5 in the unallocated space before the first partition.
However, your gtp4 says that GPT is in use, so you must allocate a bios_boot partition for this, as there is no unallocated space before the first partition with GPT.
Stage1.5 can read exactly one filesystem type and loads the grub stage2, which in turn, draws the grub menu and does your bidding when you select a kernel to load.
Reboots suggest that grub is compiled for the wrong CPU and you are getting an illegal instruction exception or the various bits of grub can't find each other.
I suspect that the grub.cfg has not yet been read at boot an that needs the part of grub that displays the menu.
If you rename grub.cfg, and all is well, you will get a grub prompt that you can use to boot.
If you don't get a prompt from grub, its not getting that far.
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To make sure I added GRUB_PLATFORMS="pc" to the make.conf and re-installed grub. But this doesn't make a difference. Also renaming grub.cfg makes no difference.
Partition table looks as follows: | Code: |
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 3146kB 2097kB grub bios_grub
2 3146kB 137MB 134MB ext2 boot boot, esp
3 137MB 674MB 537MB linux-swap(v1) swap
4 674MB 126GB 125GB jfs rootfs |
Apart from the esp flag that turned up automatically after setting the boot flag on partition 2 this looks ok to me. I got a feeling I'm mixing efi and bios....
I doubt it is compiled for a wrong CPU. At the moment in the make.conf there is CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer". System is running a pair of Opterons.
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set root='hd1,gtp4' |
is grubspeak for /boot, or at least, the partition where all the files needed to get started are. |
Is this /boot or /? If it is / then I agree, gtp4 would be the fourth partition and / is on /dev/sdb4. Otoh if it is /boot, then that is on partition 2 and I would expect gtp2.
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unmerging grub and emerging sys-boot/grub-static-0.97-r12 would give you the grub you used to use
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Spanik,
grub-static requires 32 bit support in the kernel for the install phase.
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Needing 32-bit support would mean using a multilib profile right? And this would be Grub (V1), not Grub2? I do not really care which it is. I would like to make sure I have a second backup before getting a new MB.
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| Spanik wrote: | | Needing 32-bit support would mean using a multilib profile right? And this would be Grub (V1), not Grub2? I do not really care which it is. I would like to make sure I have a second backup before getting a new MB. |
Kernel 32 bit support is for the kernel to recognize and be able to run 32 bin code.
Multi-lib support isn't needed unless you want to run shared lib 32bit software like wine.
static-grub is grub 1, I run it on a straight 64 bit system (used to be multi-lib, but I converted it)
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Ok, do I need to change anything to the HD setup/partitioning? Has been years since I did an install.
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Spanik,
grub-staic is a 32 bit binary built for you. You don't build any 32 bit code yourself.
However, the code itself, is at best 32 bit, some of it has to be 16 bit :), since the BIOS leaves the system in real mode.
This means that just once, when you install grub to the MBR, the runnnig kernel needs to support 32 executing bit code.
You can boot random liveCD to avoid doing that in your own kernel.
I still use grub-static from 2009. Its like firmware. Once it works, why upgrade?
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: | | I still use grub-static from 2009. Its like firmware. Once it works, why upgrade? |
Indeed, my grub is getting pretty old too, but I did recompile it recently due to some changes in a eclass,
compiled fine from just a straight 64bit system /w gcc-7.3.
I do have 32bit turned on in the kernel though, never hurts to have it turned on, IMO.
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Ok, just the same with grub-static. I'm going to wipe the disk, use fdisk for an "oldfashioned" setup and use grub-static from the first time and see what that gives.
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Spanik,
That's a bit excessive.
Disconnect all the other drives and make Gentoo work in a one drive system.
Wild thought ...
Do you have two graphics cards and grub is being displayed on the one you are not looking at?
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Too late  Wiped a wrong disk first  but nothing important on that one. Kernel is building right now but it takes a bl**dy long time. There is only a single video card in the pc (checked the back, no onboard either).
UPDATE: it doesn't want to run "emerge grub:0" because this blocks grub-2 as demanded by @eselected". But I can emerge grub-static. I tried adding sys-boot/grub-2 to /etc/portage/package.mask/ but this makes no difference. I hope this won't give trouble later on.
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Spanik,
Hopefully, nothing depends on your boot loader.
Wiped the disk or just destroyed the partition table?
You don't actually need a partition table to mount your partitions if you know where they are.
Testdisk can recover lost partition tables.
WARNING: Testdisk may return false positives, so letting it write an MSDOS partition table with logical partitions will destroy your data if testdisk gets it wrong.
Do check first.
| Code: | | mount -o ro,offset=bytes /dev/whole_drive /mnt/someplace |
Do read man mount to see what that does before you do it.
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No such thing as sys-boot/grub-2 in portage (now or ever IIRC) so putting it in package.mask definitely has no effect. sys-boot/grub-2.02-r1 is current stable grub.
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| Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2018 10:04 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for all the help! Booting into grub1 now and then into the build kernel. Sorry it took a bit longer than expected but I have been in bed for a couple of days.
So when running from the livecd it is root=(hd1,0) and root=/dev/sdb3 and when booting from disk it should be root=(hd0,0) and root=/dev/sdd3. Never understood why.
Probably just wiped a partition table, fsck.jfs managed to recover most of it. Nothing of great value on that disk but it would be inconvenient to loose it.
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