Hi Mika,
first of all, thank you very much for the fast reply. I guess you know how frustrating it can be to spend many hours on a problem and finally ending up with no idea how to go on. So I was very glad to find your reply in my inbox so soon :-)
The last 1-2 lines of the output would be interesting.
Here are the error messages when booting with LILO: ---- [....] No root-on-loop configured, skipping Begin: Loading MD modules ... Failure: failed to load module linear. Failure: failed to load module multipath. Failure: failed to load module raid0. Failure: failed to load module raid1. [....] Success: loaded module raid456. [...] Failure: failed to load module raid10. Done. Warning: missing mdaadm.conf file, trying to create one... Segmentation fault Done. Begin: Waiting for root file system... ... ----
Can you please provide the output of: dpkg --list mdadm lvm2 initramfs-tools lilo grub udev of the system? (Just boot grml live and chroot into your system)
---- Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-===============-==============-============================================ ii grub 0.97-19 GRand Unified Bootloader ii initramfs-tools 0.85c tools for generating an initramfs ii lilo 22.6.1-9 LInux LOader - The Classic OS loader can loa ii lvm2 2.02.06-3 The Linux Logical Volume Manager ii mdadm 2.5.6-6 tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software ii udev 0.103-1grml2 /dev/ and hotplug management daemon ----
Here is lilo.conf (which I currently use): ---- lba32 prompt timeout=50 map=/boot/map vga=normal boot=/dev/sda image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-grml label="2.6.20-grml append="grml_from_hd root=UUID=ffb575cc-c8df-4063-e0f8cb6aff03 " read-only vga=0x0317 initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-grml ---- => I left out only the other sections and the bootscreen related lines => I tried also without boot screen => I checked that all the files mentioned above do really exist => the UUID is the correct one (checked with Ubuntu live CD) => the hard disk is really sda (the only existing partition is sda1)
Here is the current menu.lst (after removal of comments etc): -> this one is the one with /dev/sdX: ---- default 0 timeout 10 title Debian GNU/LInux, kernel 2.6.20-grml root hd0,0 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-grml root=/dev/sda1 ro vga=791 initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-grml savedefault ---- => as I said: I also found detailed descriptions how to install grub manually which I followed exactly (http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Installing-GRUB-natively) => the result was the same (only 'GRUB' being displayed before the system was hanging)
-> this is the only change of the original menu.lst with the UUIDs: ---- [... same lines as above ...] kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-grml root=UUID=ffb575cc-c8df-4063--e0f8cb6aff03 ro vga=791 ----
In your third mail you wrote:
Just verified it on my own: root=UUID=... still/again does not work with initramfs-tools. So just use root=/dev/... on your grub cmdline in the meanwhile to boot your system, I'm debugging the problem....
I already did that in the case of grub (see modified menu.lst above). The result is the same. Or did I miss a step somewhere? After changing the menu.lst do I have to do any additional steps? (I think I reinstalled grub after that, but I am not sure.)
By the way: I got the GRML virtual appliance from: http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/899 (I don't know whether the distributor modified the VMachine in the meantime.)
Thanks again for your help. Hope you can guide me how to resolve that problem.
Best regards,
Jan
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