GRUB2 configuration problem

GRUB2 configuration problem

[Christopher Barry]

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Hi folks,

	I just NetInstalled Debian Lenny, and had to try grub2. I used LVM when
partitioning, and when it rebooted, the menu came up blank.

	I bounced it into KNOPPIX, saw that the mounted partitions were sda1
and sda5. sda1 (/boot) mounted, sda5 could not, as it was an LVM
container.

	I poked around in the grub directory on sda1 and found grub.cfg.
Examining this, I could see it was not doing an insmod on the LVM
module, so I added this in and rebooted. It came up, still with no menu
item listed, and when I just waited to see what it would do, it
displayed:

Booting `

for about a minute and then spewed a zillion question marks across the
screen continuously ;)

Any ideas about how to correct?


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Regards,
-C

Christopher Barry
Systems Engineer, Principal
Qlogic Corporation

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Re: GRUB2 configuration problem

[Robert Millan]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 12:10:15PM -0500, Christopher Barry wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> 	I just NetInstalled Debian Lenny, and had to try grub2. I used LVM when
> partitioning, and when it rebooted, the menu came up blank.

It's a known problem (see the mail I just sent about update-grub and LVM).

As a workaround, you can remove the font line from grub.cfg.

> 	I bounced it into KNOPPIX, saw that the mounted partitions were sda1
> and sda5. sda1 (/boot) mounted, sda5 could not, as it was an LVM
> container.
> 
> 	I poked around in the grub directory on sda1 and found grub.cfg.
> Examining this, I could see it was not doing an insmod on the LVM
> module,

You only need the LVM module if /boot is an LVM drive.

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