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#1 2011-05-08 04:41:56

Dizzy1
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Registered: 2011-04-16
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Second boot hangs because grub can't find disks

So I install arch onto a Xen HVM machine and then boot it and set up pacman, update the machine, and then reboot it and then grub can't find the disks. Could someone help me find out why or point my in the right direction? I have tried both grub and grub2 without any luck. The /boot is ext2 and home and / are ext4 if that matters. This only happens when i am fully updated. The system seems to work with the 2010.05 snapshot.

Last edited by Dizzy1 (2011-05-08 06:46:14)

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#2 2011-05-08 10:15:59

litemotiv
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Re: Second boot hangs because grub can't find disks

You will need to provide more information Dizzy1, for instance the error message, your full partition scheme, current grub.cfg file and the command you issued to install grub.


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#3 2011-05-08 15:02:17

Dizzy1
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Re: Second boot hangs because grub can't find disks

/etc/fstab of the installed system and blkid to show the uuids
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4580377/screenshot3.png

fdisk -l /dev/sda
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4580377/screenshot4.png

sda1 is /boot
sda2 is swap
sda3 is /
sda4 is /home

grub config, menu.lst

# Config file for GRUB - The GNU GRand Unified Bootloader
# /boot/grub/menu.lst

# DEVICE NAME CONVERSIONS 
#
#  Linux           Grub
# -------------------------
#  /dev/fd0        (fd0)
#  /dev/sda        (hd0)
#  /dev/sdb2       (hd1,1)
#  /dev/sda3       (hd0,2)
#

#  FRAMEBUFFER RESOLUTION SETTINGS
#     +-------------------------------------------------+
#          | 640x480    800x600    1024x768   1280x1024
#      ----+--------------------------------------------
#      256 | 0x301=769  0x303=771  0x305=773   0x307=775
#      32K | 0x310=784  0x313=787  0x316=790   0x319=793
#      64K | 0x311=785  0x314=788  0x317=791   0x31A=794
#      16M | 0x312=786  0x315=789  0x318=792   0x31B=795
#     +-------------------------------------------------+
#  for more details and different resolutions see
#  http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Framebuffer_Resolution 

# general configuration:
timeout   5
default   0
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue

# boot sections follow
# each is implicitly numbered from 0 in the order of appearance below
#
# TIP: If you want a 1024x768 framebuffer, add "vga=773" to your kernel line.
#
#-*

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/1347f942-3f04-4d1b-a032-8ce0ae5737d8 ro
initrd /kernel26.img

# (1) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux Fallback
root   (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/1347f942-3f04-4d1b-a032-8ce0ae5737d8 ro
initrd /kernel26-fallback.img

# (2) Windows
#title Windows
#rootnoverify (hd0,0)
#makeactive
#chainloader +1

I used the aif installer to install grub.


and the error message:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4580377/screenshot6.png

If I missed anything, please tell me.

Last edited by Dizzy1 (2011-05-08 15:03:24)

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