[Bug 287018] New: Grub can't mount partition
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=287018 Summary: Grub can't mount partition Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Alpha 5 Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 10.3 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: Greg.Freemyer@gmail.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: Beta-Customer It appears to me that Alpha5 is not changing the partition type designation in the MBR from FAT32 to Linux during the install process. And that this failure is causing grub in turn to fail to be able to mount the boot partition. === Details I just performed a 10.3 Alpha5 test install. Prior to the install I had planned to use the partition as a FAT32 partition. I had definitely used fdisk to set the partition type to FAT32 prior to initiating the install. I don't think I had actually formated the partition. During the install I did a custom partitioning setup and selected the above partition to be my /root partition (with /boot as simple folder). And it was to be formatted Ext3. All went well until grub tried to mount the partition fairly far along in the install. It failed. I canceled out of the install and booted into my previously existing grub menu. I edited one of my previous grub menu items to point at the newly installed partition. Same error, grub unable to mount partition. I booted to my good 10.2 partition and verified that the new aplha5 install was mountable as a Ext3 partition. I then checked things out with fdisk and realized the partition type was still FAT32. I changed it to Linux. Then I rebooted and grub had no problem booting my new Alpha5 install. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Jiri Dluhos
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Torsten Duwe
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Thomas Fehr
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Greg Freemyer
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Thomas Fehr
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Greg Freemyer
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Thomas Fehr
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