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After installing GRUB2, I can no longer boot into my other partition
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komputes |
Subject: |
After installing GRUB2, I can no longer boot into my other partition |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:17:25 -0400 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090804) |
Hello fellow GRUB users,
First time posting on this list. Hopefully someone will be able to help
me. After installing GRUB2/Ubuntu 9.10 on a LUKS encrypted partition
(using the alternate CD), I can no longer boot into my other partition.
I have a computer with one drive and multiple partitions. To simplify
the drive layout it I have included the following attempt at a
diagram/explanation:
==
/dev/sda1 [ /boot ]
/dev/sda2 [ Extended container START
-- /dev/sda8 [ / - Ubuntu 9.04]
-- /dev/sda9 [ blank ]
-- /dev/sda10 [ swap ]
/dev/sda2 Extended container STOP]
==
As you can see, I have a separate /boot partition which holds GRUB and
the various kernel images (initrd/vmlinuz). As long as I was using GRUB
0.97-29, I did not have any problems.
Now this is what I did to mess it up:
1) I booted from the Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha alternate (text-install) CD
2) Using the debian system installer, I set up /dev/sda9 to be
LVM-over-encrypted_volume. This device will be mounted to /
3) Using the debian system installer, I set up /dev/sda10 to be
LVM-over-encrypted_volume. This device will be used as encrypted swap
4) I selected the existing /dev/sda1 ( /boot ) to be mounted as /boot.
5) Once the devices set up, the installer started by installing GRUB. It
detected that a legacy GRUB was on /dev/sda1 and asked me if I wanted to
write over it with GRUB2 (1.96). A dialog with an empty line (which
should have a command in it) showed up. The dialog presented the
following message:
==
[!] Configuring grub-pc
The following linux command line was extracted from the kopt parameter
in GRUB Legacy's menu.lst. Please verify that is is correct and modify
it if necessary.
[ ]
<Go Back> <Continue>
==
Afterwards, the installation went through, and I was able to reboot into
my new Ubuntu 9.10 alpha installation. The problem happened when I
rebooted and attempted to go into my old 9.04 installation on /dev/sda1.
It seems that when GRUB2 generated grub.cfg from the legacy menu.lst, it
did not copy UUID information properly into the new syntax. The GRUB
legacy script assumes that because I set up a LVM, that now all devices
are on the LVM managed, when I don't think that they are.
The layout after the Ubuntu 9.10 alpha installation looks like this:
==
/dev/sda1 [ /boot ]
/dev/sda2 [ Extended container START
-- /dev/sda8 [ / - Ubuntu 9.04]
-- /dev/sda9 [ crypt-luks ]
--- /dev/mapper/cryptdisk-karmic
-- /dev/sda10 [ crypt-luks ]
--- /dev/mapper/sda9_crypt
/dev/sda2 Extended container STOP]
==
I cannot boot into Ubuntu 9.04 which is the problem I would like to
resolve. When I select a kernel from Ubuntu 9.04, I just get a blinking
underscore in the top left corner. Here is a line from the backed up
legacy menu.lst followed by that same line in the new grub.cfg after
being imported:
menu.lst
==
title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-13-generic
uuid 1768a7ec-e0ce-8fa4-814b-2e628de7c2b2
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.28-13-generic
root=UUID=e1b20064-8204-4150-be5e-83bd537defc8 ro quiet splash vga=773
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.28-13-generic
quiet
==
grub.cfg
==
menuentry "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.28-13-generic" {
set root=(hd0,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 1768a7ec-e0ce-8fa4-814b-2e628de7c2b2
linux /vmlinuz-2.6.28-13-generic root=/dev/mapper/cryptdisk-karmic ro
quiet splash
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.28-13-generic
}
==
Any help would be appreciated. I hope that I have provide enough
information to diagnose the issue.
Thanks,
-komputes
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