Description of problem: During install later phases configuring video etc, i Ctrl-AltFx switch between terminals and see it failed mounting all LVM logical volumes, thus also grub failed. (after next boot only grub alternative was Windows which luckily works) For details of partitioning used, see https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4442 __Comments Is this problem with drakx, kernel or disk driver module? I guess the bug 4442 is related. This is an old Thinkpad T40 laptop, IDE PATA drive. This install was made by boot.iso network based cauldron mga 1 installer works perfectly - tried it this morning only to verify installable and boot to LXDE desktop. mga 2 alpha 3 iso DVD do not even get through partitioning. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): All from network install now, my mirror syncs one or two times a day. How reproducible: Have only tried on this machine.
Booted that machine on sysresccd.org live USB system, and issued vgscan vgchange -a y -v and all my LVM partitions popped up in /dev/vg-mga/ vghange also said for each partition "activation/volume_list configuration not defined" but i have no idea if it is normal or what it means. I could also mount them and see that the root partition have been populated. I could also mount the ext4 /boot partition (which is outside LVM) and see it is populated with vmlinuz* grub folder etc. So it installed things allright, but what happened then during final configuration??
Used gparted on that same live USB system to remove the small weird lvm partition i mentionned in bug 4442. The one i had to schrink as installer could not change its type. Gparted removed it, but responded that it could not inform kernel about changes. As mentionned in another bug this recent sysresccd also had various hickups on this avdenture so i dug up an old version, rebooted on that, and fixed that partition after the windows partition that mysteriously got set to swap after i formatted it to ntfs, now i set it to ext4. Ran the boot.iso again, now in the installer i "reconnected" my partitions, and let it install again, without formatting anything. Pretty soon it was finished and this time it managed to get grub working - i can boot cauldron! Well things are broken, like grub is textmode and i need to select safe mode to get graphical login, and KDE miss lots of things. But i blame that on that both this time and the last many packages were missing during install, maybe because timeout on my lousy connection, maybe changes in repo. Now it is running update again, and I will see what i can fix. I will come back here later. I took photos of the screen showing partitions using gparted if you want.
Thanks for the bug report. Could you provide the file /root/drakx/report.bug.gz as an attachment ?
Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
Created attachment 1528 [details] report.bug.gz as per request Note this is after the sucessful second attempt as i described above, and a few crashes and reboots
OK thanks Thierry, any ideas ?
Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaudSource RPM: (none) => drakx-installer-stage2
Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)
I used network install, and have a lousy connection. Thought: During network install, is the *.sqfs checksummed? It seems I did have problems during fetching it: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4440#c8
No but if it was corrupted, the kernel should have issue unpacking it.
Created attachment 1557 [details] Screenshot for comment 1
Created attachment 1558 [details] Screenshot for comment #2 sda9 set by gparted worked
Created attachment 1559 [details] Screenshot at text terminal at end of install before reboot It took me until now when i emptied my camera, that i saw the error message at top of this screen: Entering step `Configure X' error: Too many levels of recursion in macro expansion. Should we file another bug for that? On what? Near bottom we see it complains on LVM partitions that all partition tables are borked. But reboot worked, and i could update it, and uninstall/reinstall grub graphic used mcc boot tool and now the install is completely working (minus shutdown and sound bugs)
CC: (none) => djmarian4uSummary: At end of install all LVM partitions fail -> Grub fail, no mga boot alternative => at end of install all LVM partitions fail -> Grub fail, no mga boot alternative
Hi, This bug was filed against cauldron, but we do not have cauldron at the moment. Please report whether this bug is still valid for Mageia 2. Thanks :) Cheers, marja
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Status: NEW => RESOLVEDCC: (none) => marja11Resolution: (none) => OLD
Probably something very special with how that disk was configured before, or some odd hardware bug interfering rarely. Let it rest. Also see https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4442#c14