Re: Problems upgrading GRUB to GRUB2 while upgrading to Squeeze from Lenny
On 6 February 2011 03:21, Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Markus Viitamäki <markus@viitamaki.net> wrote:
>>
>> I have this small problem to upgrade GRUB to GRUB2 when upgrading my
>> boxes from Lenny to Squeeze.
>>
>> This problem seems to be related to using Raid or not, as the servers
>> I've tested on and want to upgrade is either using mdadm-raid or
>> hardware-raid. (I have not been able to test on a non-raid system as i
>> don't have one)
>>
>> The problem is that grub-pc package wont install as it fails on a
>> problem like this:
>>
>> Setting up grub-pc (1.98+20100804-14) ...
>> /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-pc.postinst: line 270: 18302 Killed
>> grub-mkdevicemap --no-floppy
>> dpkg: error processing grub-pc (--configure):
>> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 137
>> configured to not write apport reports
>> dpkg: dependency problems
>> prevent configuration of grub:
>> grub depends on grub-pc; however:
>> Package grub-pc is not configured yet.
>> dpkg: error processing grub (--configure):
>> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>> configured to not write apport reports
>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>> grub-pc
>> grub
>> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>>
>> And I've tried a few other things to just get more information but
>> without success.
>>
>> grub-install --recheck /dev/sda
>> /usr/sbin/grub-install: line 285: 18340 Killed
>> $grub_mkdevicemap --device-map=$device_map $no_floppy
>> grub-mkdevicemap --no-floppy
>> Killed
>>
>> This is the setup of the system and partitions I have:
>> df -h
>> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/sda3 5.1G 2.7G 2.2G 55% /
>> /dev/sda1 59M 19M 37M 34% /boot
>> /dev/sda4 129G 63G 60G 52% /var
>
> grub-pc doesn't seem to like your hardware RAID.
>
> Does "grub-mkdevicemap --verbose --no-floppy" give a better clue to
> what's failing?
>
>
Hello!
Sadly no. As it does not say anything more than 'Killed'.
grub-mkdevicemap --verbose --no-floppy
Killed
// Markus
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