Re: [gentoo-user] installed Gentoo on SSD - no bootable device

[Joseph]

On 09/04/14 18:17, Joseph wrote:
>I just installed gentoo on my new SSD (intel 480GB drive SSDSC2BF-480H501)
>
>I mostly was installing everything over ssh (easier) and using grub2 but upon rebooting I get:
>
>"No bootable device - Insert boot disk and press any key"
>
>I boot strap to my system:
>
># swapon /dev/sda3
># mount -t ext4 /dev/sda4 /mnt/gentoo
># mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/gentoo/boot
># cd /mnt/gentoo
># mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
># mount --rbind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev
># chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
># env-update
># source /etc/profile
>
>If boot strap and try to start ssh I and get a warning (and can not login)
>
>"You attempting to run an openrc service on a system which openrc did not boot
>..."
>I can ssh to the system before I boot I bootstrap
>
>My partition:
>fdisk -l /dev/sda
>
>Disk /dev/sda: 447.1 GiB, 480103981056 bytes, 937703088 sectors
>Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
>Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>Disklabel type: gpt
>Disk identifier: 37C37937-6310-4B04-93A6-05CD7792EF16
>
>Device           Start          End   Size Type
>/dev/sda1         2048         6143     2M BIOS boot partition
>/dev/sda2         6144       268287   128M Linux filesystem
>/dev/sda3       268288      4462591     2G Linux swap
>/dev/sda4      4462592    937703054   445G Linux filesystem
>
>sda2 - boot
>sda4 - root

When I installed grub2 I got no errors:
grub2-install /dev/sda
Installation finished. No error reported.

but looking at grub2 configuration, it is looking for kernel on sda4 (shouldn't it be sda2?).

linux   /vmlinuz-3.14.14-gentoo root=/dev/sda4 ro single


### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then
  load_env
fi
if [ "${next_entry}" ] ; then
   set default="${next_entry}"
   set next_entry=
   save_env next_entry
   set boot_once=true
else
   set default="0"
fi

if [ x"${feature_menuentry_id}" = xy ]; then
  menuentry_id_option="--id"
else
  menuentry_id_option=""
fi

export menuentry_id_option

if [ "${prev_saved_entry}" ]; then
  set saved_entry="${prev_saved_entry}"
  save_env saved_entry
  set prev_saved_entry=
  save_env prev_saved_entry
  set boot_once=true
fi

function savedefault {
  if [ -z "${boot_once}" ]; then
    saved_entry="${chosen}"
    save_env saved_entry
  fi
}

function load_video {
  if [ x$feature_all_video_module = xy ]; then
    insmod all_video
  else
    insmod efi_gop
    insmod efi_uga
    insmod ieee1275_fb
    insmod vbe
    insmod vga
    insmod video_bochs
    insmod video_cirrus
  fi
}

if [ x$feature_default_font_path = xy ] ; then
   font=unicode
else
insmod part_gpt
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,gpt4'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,gpt4 --hint-efi=hd0,gpt4 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt4  00e8b950-21c6-4558-918f-855042b42d36
else
  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 00e8b950-21c6-4558-918f-855042b42d36
fi
    font="/usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2"
fi

if loadfont $font ; then
  set gfxmode=auto
  load_video
  insmod gfxterm
  set locale_dir=$prefix/locale
  set lang=en_US
  insmod gettext
fi
terminal_output gfxterm
if sleep --interruptible 0 ; then
  set timeout=10
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry 'Gentoo GNU/Linux' --class gentoo --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-simple-00e8b950-21c6-4558-918f-855042b42d36' {
	load_video
	insmod gzio
	insmod part_gpt
	insmod ext2
	set root='hd0,gpt2'
	if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
	  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,gpt2 --hint-efi=hd0,gpt2 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt2  4fac7293-6a58-43a4-857b-6e3095a8e50d
	else
	  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 4fac7293-6a58-43a4-857b-6e3095a8e50d
	fi
	echo	'Loading Linux 3.14.14-gentoo ...'
	linux	/vmlinuz-3.14.14-gentoo root=/dev/sda4 ro  
}
submenu 'Advanced options for Gentoo GNU/Linux' $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-advanced-00e8b950-21c6-4558-918f-855042b42d36' {
	menuentry 'Gentoo GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.14.14-gentoo' --class gentoo --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 
'gnulinux-3.14.14-gentoo-advanced-00e8b950-21c6-4558-918f-855042b42d36' {
		load_video
		insmod gzio
		insmod part_gpt
		insmod ext2
		set root='hd0,gpt2'
		if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
		  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,gpt2 --hint-efi=hd0,gpt2 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt2  4fac7293-6a58-43a4-857b-6e3095a8e50d
		else
		  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 4fac7293-6a58-43a4-857b-6e3095a8e50d
		fi
		echo	'Loading Linux 3.14.14-gentoo ...'
		linux	/vmlinuz-3.14.14-gentoo root=/dev/sda4 ro  
	}
	menuentry 'Gentoo GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.14.14-gentoo (recovery mode)' --class gentoo --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 
'gnulinux-3.14.14-gentoo-recovery-00e8b950-21c6-4558-918f-855042b42d36' {
		load_video
		insmod gzio
		insmod part_gpt
		insmod ext2
		set root='hd0,gpt2'
		if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
		  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,gpt2 --hint-efi=hd0,gpt2 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt2  4fac7293-6a58-43a4-857b-6e3095a8e50d
		else
		  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 4fac7293-6a58-43a4-857b-6e3095a8e50d
		fi
		echo	'Loading Linux 3.14.14-gentoo ...'
		linux	/vmlinuz-3.14.14-gentoo root=/dev/sda4 ro single 
	}
}

### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###
### END /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries.  Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment.  Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
if [ -f  ${config_directory}/custom.cfg ]; then
  source ${config_directory}/custom.cfg
elif [ -z "${config_directory}" -a -f  $prefix/custom.cfg ]; then
  source $prefix/custom.cfg;
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###


-- 
Joseph