Bug 8357

Summary:	Boot of freshly-installed system locks up in GRUB
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Frank Griffin <ftg>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	mageia, thierry.vignaud, tmb
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	report.bug.xz

Description Frank Griffin 2012-12-10 21:51:06 CET

I tried a fresh install with today's cauldron.  Everything went fine, and I tried to reboot into the new system.

I had installed the new bootloader on the root partition, and chained to it from my existing cauldron GRUB bootloader (I always install a new system bootloader to its own root partition, and then install it to /dev/sda when I'm ready to make the new system the default).

The boot of the new system shows the old GRUB menu, I select the chain entry for the new partition, I see the GRUB graphic screen for the newly-installed partition, select the "Boot Mageia 3" default, and get a character-based screen from GRUB that prints the kernel line, the root filesystem line, the initrd line, and then freezes.  It's either locked or looping, since it does not respond to CTRL-ALT-DELETE, or to the magic keys.  It looks like a problem with the initrd

The only deviation from my normal install procedure was that XFdrake comes up during install and says that the machine has two graphic adapters, and gives 4 options.  Normally, I pick one of the two, but this time I accepted the default of configuring both.

I'll redo the install selecting one or the other and see if it makes a difference.  But the default choice shouldn't result in an unbootable system.

Comment 1 Thomas Backlund 2012-12-11 01:09:40 CET

Yep.
known bug... the initrd does not get created at all...

We are looking at it...

CC: (none) => tmb

Comment 2 Thierry Vignaud 2012-12-11 12:01:46 CET

Can you attach the /root/drakx/report.bug.xz of that system?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud

Comment 3 Frank Griffin 2012-12-11 12:40:09 CET

Created attachment 3228 [details]
report.bug.xz

Comment 4 Frank Griffin 2012-12-11 12:41:24 CET

(In reply to comment #1)
> Yep.
> known bug... the initrd does not get created at all...
> 
> We are looking at it...

Is it related to the dual-head video, or is that just a red herring ?

Thierry Vignaud 2012-12-11 12:51:13 CET

CC: (none) => mageia

Comment 5 Thierry Vignaud 2012-12-11 14:27:56 CET

(In reply to comment #1)
> Yep.
> known bug... the initrd does not get created at all...
> 
> We are looking at it...

I think I know why, it cames from rosa's grub2 support

Comment 6 Thierry Vignaud 2012-12-11 18:43:51 CET

Fixed in SVN

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED