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Ska

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grub - no such device

hi Folks,

grub can not found a 2nd HDD on witch I put some tools for backup and stuff.
System is a VM running on VM-Workstation 17.5.
4 HDDs.
/dev/sda1     2048   1050623   1048576  512M EFI-System
/dev/sda2  1050624   9439231   8388608    4G Linux Swap
/dev/sda3  9439232 167770111 158330880 75,5G Linux-Dateisystem

/dev/sdb1    2048 83884031 83881984   40G Linux-Dateisystem

/dev/sdc1    2048 125827071 125825024   60G Linux-Dateisystem

/dev/sdd1    2048 33552383 33550336   16G Linux-Dateisystem

blkid:
/dev/sdd1: LABEL="tools" UUID="050afca0-5079-4ea2-b605-7f79bca211d3" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="36e99685-9608-42a0-a795-783b42439cdb"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="25ee6dab-c69e-45c1-8c30-c48e8eda244b" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="93b1186b-603a-4134-985a-d9ce7c5c2ab0"
/dev/sdc1: UUID="20822b1d-f4c6-449e-ab75-41ab0dec4987" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="728df228-c177-4b39-8b7a-e69e977996e2"
/dev/sda2: UUID="038d9d27-c508-4088-bf17-99801df1a0b7" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="15b941a4-fcc9-4c9d-8bac-08a164347d10"
/dev/sda3: UUID="45ec27be-f11b-485f-be53-2be2b5315359" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="744f11d7-6462-4cad-81ae-76aedde2a66a"
/dev/sda1: UUID="6AF3-D8C1" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="c3d2d1ac-a4f0-4bea-9c7f-3eab9b23d71c"

this is the grub entry Im trying to boot
#! /bin/sh -e
echo "Füge einen Starteintrag für Tools ein" >&2
cat << EOF
submenu "Tools" {
set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue
set menu_color_highlight=white/blue
menuentry "SystemRescue 9.04 64-Bit" {
load_video
  insmod gzio
  insmod part_gpt
  insmod part_msdos
  insmod ext2
  search --no-floppy --label tools --set=root
  linux  /sysres904/boot/x86_64/vmlinuz archisobasedir=sysres904 archisolabel=tools copytoram setkmap=de-latin1-nodeadkeys
  initrd /sysres904/boot/x86_64/sysresccd.img
}
}
EOF

Arch itselfs boots fine.
But if I try to boot SystemRescue grub gives me device not found. No device there called tools.
But from the output of blkid I see it is there.
I also tried using UUID... same result... no device with that UUID.

On Debian putting tools on its own partition worked since Debian 8 for me.
Now that I try to switch to Arch the problem starts.

Ska

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Registered: 2023-12-22

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Re: grub - no such device

Could it be that grub will only find devices that are on the same disc as grub is?
I put the Tools directory here on an other HDD.

-thc

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Re: grub - no such device

The syntax looks wrong to me:

search --no-floppy --label tools --set=root

It should read

search --no-floppy --label --set=root tools

Ska

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Registered: 2023-12-22

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Re: grub - no such device

Same error:
Error: no such device: tools
Error: File "vmlinuz" not found.
Error: Load kernel first.

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: grub - no such device

The order doesn't matter.

Try removing the insmod commands. You have a GPT disk but you've forced the MS-DOS module, which isn't needed. I find that GRUB can autoload the modules just fine anyway.

EDIT: and you don't need `cat`, just the menuentry is fine.

EDIT2: actually that would only apply to 40_custom and that should have the `tail` command first. What is the name of the file shown in your post?

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2023-12-22 18:35:28)

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Ska

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Re: grub - no such device

it's /etc/grub.d/11_tools, yes file is 755... a config for my own tools parition.
removing insmod dosent change anything.

Last edited by Ska (2023-12-22 18:47:49)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: grub - no such device

Can we see

# grub-probe -t fs_label -d /dev/sdd1

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Ska

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Re: grub - no such device

sure, it display "tools"

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: grub - no such device

No idea then, sorry. I'm going to blame VM-Workstation because I know nothing about it

Perhaps put "VM-Workstation" in the thread title to attract the attention of people who know about it.

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Ska

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Re: grub - no such device

OK I created another VM.
Just one big drive with differnt partitions for /, /home, /backup, /tools and swap. And not own HDD for each partition.
And guess what... It works with my config on the first try.
So im pretty sure it's the other HDD the tools are on witch causes the problem... Grub just can not find another then the default HDD.
I thought we had UUID for this....

Last edited by Ska (2023-12-22 22:38:45)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: grub - no such device

Given that everything is configured correctly and GRUB can recognise the label independently this must be a VMWare problem. It looks to be a proprietary solution so why not ask them?

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