[Voyage-linux] Update grub in voyage 0.11 built from SVN

[Kim-man 'Punky' TSE]

Hi Dalimil,

Did you follow live-cd instruction and install from it directly?

http://linux.voyage.hk/content/getting-started-live-cd-v010x

And I am just too lazy to update it to grub2.

Regards,
Punky


On 9/15/2016 6:08 PM, Dalimil Gala wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> it seems that grub-legacy should be replaced with grub-pc (grub2) in subversion (SVN) debian-live build.
>
> I have encountered hang in grub setup when installing Voyage 0.11 (jessie) built from SVN.
>
> I was trying to install it on a PC (Supermicro X7SPA/D510) with Intel SSD SSDSC2BW120H6 (120 GB)
>
> I have
>
> - booted debian jessie live distro from CD-ROM ISO image mounted over samba (it's a feature of IPMI on X7SPA)
>
> - using parted and mkfs.ext4 I have created /dev/sda1 over whole the disk (sda1 starting at sector 2048) and created 
> ext4 fs.
>
> - extracted tar archive with voyage to /tmp
>
> - ran ./usr/local/sbin/voyage.update as usually
>
> - installed "Generic PC" profile to /dev/sda (root /dev/sda1), using /mnt/cf as target directory
>
> The file copy phase went OK but grub installation froze with 100% CPU forever.
>
>
> The command to freeze was:
>
> grub> setup (hd0) (hd0,0)
>
>
> Nearly identical issue is described here:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425648
>
>
> To fix my voyage installation I have
>
> - bind mounted /proc (/dev was bind mounted already)
>
> - chrooted to /mnt/cf
>
> - apt-get installed grub-pc (grub2) while refused to install grub to boot sector during package setup
>
> - ran install-grub /dev/sda
>
> - ran update-grub to be sure
>
> - checked that /boot/grub/grub.cfg looks OK
>
> Machine than rebooted to Voyage OK.
>
>
> Dalimil Gala
>
>
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Regards,
Kim-man "Punky" Tse

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