https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447970 User antoine.mechelynck@belgacom.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447970#c2 --- Comment #2 from Tony Mechelynck 2008-11-22 10:02:06 MST --- Created an attachment (id=254545) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=254545) /etc/sysconfig/kernel as seen under openSUSE 11.0 (which works) My HDD is partitioned as follows: 1) (ext2) 38M total, 14K used, former /boot, now normally not mounted 2) (ext2) 20G total, 9.7G used, former Dos partition, reformatted as a place to download ISO images for upgrade, normally not mounted 3) swap, 3G total 4) extended partition 5) (reiserfs) 92G total, 22G used, my SuSE system 11.0 calls it /dev/sda, 11.1 calls it /dev/hda (when it sees it at all). Logs from "lspci -vv" and "dmesg" follow. -- 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.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447970 User antoine.mechelynck@belgacom.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447970#c4 --- Comment #4 from Tony Mechelynck 2008-11-22 10:05:27 MST --- Created an attachment (id=254547) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=254547) sysout from "dmesg" -- 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.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447970 User roland.kletzing@materna.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447970#c6 --- Comment #6 from roland kletzing 2008-11-22 10:32:25 MST --- thanks. INITRD_MODULES="pata_sis reiserfs fan edd sis5513 ata_generic ide_pci_generic" how does the INITRD_MODULES list look like on the broken system? -- 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.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447970 User antoine.mechelynck@belgacom.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447970#c8 --- Comment #8 from Tony Mechelynck 2008-11-22 22:20:58 MST --- (In reply to comment #7 from roland kletzing)

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how does the INITRD_MODULES list look like on the broken system?

stupid me - as you can boot your broken system via dvd and there is only this one - so please ignore.

but i`d like to take a look into contents of /boot ( ls -la /boot ) and /boot/grub/menu.lst

did you already check for problems there or can you post that, too ?

i suspect there`s something wrong with the initrd.

If you mean the initrd on the 11.1 DVD (at /boot/i386/loader/initrd within the image downloaded from http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1-Beta5/iso/openSUSE-11.1-Beta5... ), it lets the DVD system access my HD with no problem. I could attach it to this bug, but I suppose it would only duplicate information already available online. If you mean the initrd created by that system as the target of the /boot/initrd symlink on my HD for use by grub at bootup, I believe it was lost by downgrading and is no more accessible. The same applies to /boot/* and /boot/grub/* as created by the 11.1 upgrade system on my HD, so, no, I cannot post that -- and I'm not going to lose the better part of a day again to install a system which I know doesn't work (and cannot access the Internet either, see bug 447971), then uninstall it. -- 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.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447970 User antoine.mechelynck@belgacom.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447970#c10 Tony Mechelynck changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Flag| |SHIP_STOPPER? --- Comment #10 from Tony Mechelynck 2008-11-23 06:38:04 MST --- Not sure whom to request SHIP_STOPPER from -- feel free to fill in the requestee field. -- 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.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447970 User antoine.mechelynck@belgacom.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447970#c12 Tony Mechelynck changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|antoine.mechelynck@belgacom.net | --- Comment #12 from Tony Mechelynck 2008-11-23 08:18:58 MST --- (In reply to comment #11 from roland kletzing)

downgrading? did you try to downgrade ?

i`m confused - i thought this was about upgrading issue!? [...]

I tried to upgrade from 11.0 to 11.1-Beta5, noticed this bug (to which I found a kludgy workaround) and bug 447971 (which prevented me from accessing the Internet, and to which I found no workaround), and finally downgraded back to 11.0 thanks to the 11.0 ISO images saved on my partition #2. Then, after rebooting the 11.0 system (which finds my HDD and connects my DSL modem with no problem), I reported these two bugs, which are about the system which I could (apparently) install, and even run after a fashion, but with no Internet connection and a kludgy (and slow) bootup sequence requiring invoking "expert repairs" from the DVD+X11 system at every bootup. A third (well, second) party could help me by making sure that by the time 11.1 final ships, it can boot from my HD and connect to the Internet through my PPPoE DSL line. In the meantime I'm back to 11.0 after making you aware that I had a problem (since if nobody reports a bug it isn't gonna get fixed). Now of course you may or may not be able to reproduce the problem. If you aren't, is there a way I can help you find out what went wrong, preferably without running a day-long upgrade-downgrade sequence with no Internet connection (therefore no mail, no news, no bug reporting at either Novell or Mozilla, etc.)? If there is, please explain how, because otherwise I'm lost. -- 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.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447970 User antoine.mechelynck@belgacom.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447970#c14 Tony Mechelynck changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|antoine.mechelynck@belgacom.net | --- Comment #14 from Tony Mechelynck 2008-11-24 03:03:03 MST --- Hm. The booted 11.1-Beta5 system told me it didn't find some name which I don't fully remember but it started with "/dev/disk/by-id/" and ended with "-part5"; then it asked "fallback on /dev/hda5 Y/n?"; after Y it still doesn't appear (after displaying several tens of full stops on the console), so I'm left with a bash command-line. At that point "ls /dev" showed no hard drive that I could recognize. Of course I may have missed something. The 11.1-Beta5 DVD system sees it as /dev/hda5, I can see /dev/hda5 mounted on /mnt during upgrade, and I have to replace sda by hda (and sr0 by hdc) in /etc/fstab to make it work when "booting the installed system" from the "expert repairs" menu. Under 11.0 (after downgrading back), the menu.lst uses the line kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-2-pae root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_Maxtor_6Y120P0_Y36LRGNE-part5 splash=silent showopts and the kernel booted from disk sees it as /dev/sda5. My boot log is from this 11.0 system, I suppose, as the 11.1-Beta5 couldn't connect my DSL line so, as said above, I had to downgrade back to 11.0 before I could report the bug. -- 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.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447970 User teheo@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447970#c15 Tejun Heo changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |DUPLICATE --- Comment #15 from Tejun Heo 2008-11-24 06:20:45 MST --- Dup of #441384. ide and libata create differently named by-id nodes so the with the driver switched it can't find the device. Will be fixed in -rc1. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 441384 *** https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441384 -- 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.