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22 Jan 2011 22 Jan '11

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666358 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666358#c0 Summary: Initial 11.3 installation and now Online Update make system unbootable Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.3 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.3 Status: NEW Severity: Critical Priority: P5 - None Component: Bootloader AssignedTo: jsrain@novell.com ReportedBy: Curt.Blank@curtronics.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- Created an attachment (id=409648) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=409648) Bad grub files from 11.3 install and online update User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 SUSE/3.6.13-0.2.1 Firefox/3.6.13 When I first installed 11.3, actually did an upgrade from a previous openSuSE version, the upgrade totally screwed up grub's device.map file and the menu.lst file and the machine could not boot. And if you can't boot you can't get at the files to fix them. I was to say the least, very unhappy with openSuSE. Now I just did an Online Update and the update screwed up the menu.lst file and again the machine would not boot. and again I was very unhappy with openSuSE if you catch my drift... What it did was set root to (hd0,0) when it should be (hd0,1). And it set root= to root=/dev/disk/by-label// which does not work on this machine. Why I do not know. It needs to be root=/dev/sda1 and then it will boot. Attached are the good and the bad files. device.map.BadBadBadFrom11.3Install is what the 11.3 install set it to be and when menu.lst tried to use it the machine could not boot. The file device.map.GoodThisIsWhatItShouldBe is like it says is what it needs to be to boot. The file menu.lst.BadBadBadFromUpdate is what the Online Update I just did today and the machine could not boot. The file menu.lst.GoodThisIsWhatItShouldBe is like it says what it needs to be. Now, even if there is a way to get the '/dev/disk/by-label/' configuration working there is no excuse for the install to screw up the device.map file, it didn't even have an entry for (hd0) and that is the disk it boots on and runs from! And the update setting root to (hd0,0) when it needs to be (hd0,1). That is inexcusable. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install 11.3 2. or do an online update 3. Actual Results: The machine would not boot! Expected Results: I expect and install and an online update to configure grub's configuration files correctly. That is what I expect. -- 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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22 Jan 22 Jan

03:58

New subject: [Bug 666358] Initial 11.3 installation and now Online Update make system unbootable

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666358 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666358#c1 Curtis J Blank changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |Curt.Blank@curtronics.com --- Comment #1 from Curtis J Blank 2011-01-22 03:58:50 UTC --- I should mention this happened on another machine installing 11.3, first doing an upgrade the doing a clean install from scratch, grub's boot files were screwed up and the machine could not boot. Both ways it screwed up. And if you need any other information I am more then willing to provide it. Below are my mount points. I sure as heck hope it's not using (hd0,0) because you assume /boot is not a mount point... Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 2.0G 610M 1.4G 31% / devtmpfs 3.9G 412K 3.9G 1% /dev tmpfs 4.0G 4.0K 4.0G 1% /dev/shm /dev/sda2 1020M 56M 954M 6% /boot /dev/sda5 7.9G 516M 7.4G 7% /tmp /dev/sda6 16G 5.8G 9.9G 38% /usr /dev/sda7 20G 3.2G 17G 17% /usr/local /dev/sda8 4.0G 254M 3.7G 7% /opt /dev/sda9 20G 3.3G 17G 17% /home /dev/sda10 12G 2.4G 9.4G 21% /srv /dev/sda11 20G 3.9G 16G 20% /var -- 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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24 Jan 24 Jan

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New subject: [Bug 666358] Initial 11.3 installation and now Online Update make system unbootable

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666358 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666358#c Jiri Srain changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|jsrain@novell.com |jreidinger@novell.com -- 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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11 Feb 11 Feb

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New subject: [Bug 666358] Initial 11.3 installation and now Online Update make system unbootable

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666358 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666358#c2 Josef Reidinger changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P5 - None |P2 - High Status|NEW |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |Curt.Blank@curtronics.com --- Comment #2 from Josef Reidinger 2011-02-11 16:23:49 UTC --- Hi, it looks really strange, especially bad device map is really strange. Could you please attach all yast logs? http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Bugreport_YaST thanks -- 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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25 Feb 25 Feb

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New subject: [Bug 666358] Initial 11.3 installation and now Online Update make system unbootable

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666358 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666358#c3 --- Comment #3 from Curtis J Blank 2011-02-25 03:05:38 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=416150) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=416150) Yast logs you requested If these don't cover it I can go backup farther, I have /var/log/YaST2/ backed up. -- 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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4 Mar 4 Mar

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666358 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666358#c Curtis J Blank changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW InfoProvider|Curt.Blank@curtronics.com | -- 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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10 Mar 10 Mar

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New subject: [Bug 666358] Initial 11.3 installation and now Online Update make system unbootable

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666358 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666358#c4 --- Comment #4 from Curtis J Blank 2011-03-10 15:03:23 UTC --- I just realized something, when I said "root=/dev/disk/by-label// which does not work on this machine", I now realized why this does not work, the file system on / is reiserfs, resiser does not have Labels I believe. But it should look at the fs and not try to do something that doesn't work. Now I know reiserfs is no longer your file system of choice but this server was built a long time ago when reiserfs was your file system of choice and got to be 11.3 by upgrading it one version at a time. So my plans are to get it to use ext4 eventually but I can't do a clean install on this server so I'll have to take an outage to get it there and that would be a rather long outage. -- 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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11 Mar 11 Mar

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New subject: [Bug 666358] Initial 11.3 installation and now Online Update make system unbootable

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666358 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666358#c5 --- Comment #5 from Curtis J Blank 2011-03-11 15:54:19 UTC --- Ok I was wrong, disregard my last Comment, #4. I had switched to ext4 on all my computers running openSuSE but had forgotten I'd done that. So this problem is occurring when using ext4 which has labels. -- 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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22 Mar 22 Mar

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New subject: [Bug 666358] Initial 11.3 installation and now Online Update make system unbootable

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666358 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666358#c6 Josef Reidinger changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|jreidinger@novell.com |snwint@novell.com --- Comment #6 from Josef Reidinger 2011-03-22 17:14:01 UTC --- Steffen - there is main problem with problematic device map. If it is not correct, then installing kernel produce strange result. Device map propose only yast2-bootloader. Perl-bootloader just read it and write content from yast2-bootloader. -- 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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24 Mar 24 Mar

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New subject: [Bug 666358] Initial 11.3 installation and now Online Update make system unbootable

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666358 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666358#c7 --- Comment #7 from Curtis J Blank 2011-03-24 07:51:10 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=421073) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=421073) grub boot files and grub logs grub boot files and grub logs -- 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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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666358 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666358#c8 --- Comment #8 from Curtis J Blank 2011-03-24 07:55:52 UTC --- openSuSE 11.4 is screwing up also, making the machine unbootable, is is on my ldaptop. I attached the screwed up grub files and the Yast2 logs. First off it set "root (hd0,0)", root is (hd0,5). Second off there is no (hd0,5) on the kerenl and initrd lines. Don't know if it will work without that and wasn't going to try. Third off it sets "root=/dev/disk/by-label//" that doesn't seem to work. (hd0,5), /dev/sda5's lable is "/" (see the list of my disk label below) but this doesn't work. Fourth device.map contains the entry "(hd0) /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST9320423AS_5VJABCAL" which does work but when I swap out the disk that I have created by dd'ing one to another it will not work! Which is how I and others upgrade to a new or lager disk. Why not just use "(hd0) /dev/sda"?? EXT4 disk partition labels: /dev/sda5 Filesystem volume name: / /dev/sda6 Filesystem volume name: /boot /dev/sda8 Filesystem volume name: /tmp /dev/sda9 Filesystem volume name: /usr /dev/sda10 Filesystem volume name: /usr/local /dev/sda11 Filesystem volume name: /opt /dev/sda12 Filesystem volume name: /home /dev/sda13 Filesystem volume name: /srv /dev/sda14 Filesystem volume name: /var /dev/sda15 Filesystem volume name: /data01 -- 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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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666358 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666358#c9 --- Comment #9 from Curtis J Blank 2011-03-24 08:09:01 UTC --- Below is the list of my "by-label" directory, I have confirmed the machine will not boot using "by-label" with this entry: title Desktop -- openSUSE 11.4 - 2.6.37.1-1.2 (desktop test) root (hd0,5) kernel (hd0,5)/vmlinuz-2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-label// showopts vga=0x317 initrd (hd0,5)/initrd-2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop # ls -ald /dev/disk/by-label/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 300 Mar 23 22:02 /dev/disk/by-label/ cjbLT2:/boot/grub # ls -al /dev/disk/by-label/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 300 Mar 23 22:02 . drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 120 Mar 23 22:02 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 24 03:02 HP_RECOVERY -> ../../sda2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 24 03:02 Swap -> ../../sda3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 24 03:02 \x2f -> ../../sda5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 24 03:02 \x2fboot -> ../../sda6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Mar 24 03:02 \x2fdata01 -> ../../sda15 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Mar 24 03:02 \x2fhome -> ../../sda12 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Mar 24 03:02 \x2fopt -> ../../sda11 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Mar 24 03:02 \x2fsrv -> ../../sda13 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 24 03:02 \x2ftmp -> ../../sda8 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 24 03:02 \x2fusr -> ../../sda9 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Mar 24 03:02 \x2fusr\x2flocal -> ../../sda10 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Mar 24 03:02 \x2fvar -> ../../sda14 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 24 03:02 swap -> ../../sda7 -- 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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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666358 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666358#c Steffen Winterfeldt changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED Summary|Initial 11.3 installation |pbl: Initial 11.3 |and now Online Update make |installation and now Online |system unbootable |Update make system | |unbootable -- 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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8 Aug 8 Aug

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666358 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666358#c10 --- Comment #10 from Curtis J Blank 2011-08-08 01:29:41 UTC --- When are you going to do something about this??!! The kernel update to 2.6.37.6-0.7-desktop just made my laptop unbootable AGAIN!!! It set (hd0,0) when it should be (hd0,5) And it set root=/dev/disk/by-label// AND THAT DON"T WORK!!!! It needs to be root=/dev/sda5 WHY AREN'T YOU FINING THIS!!!! See the two menu.lst* files I'm going to attach. -- 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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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666358 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666358#c11 --- Comment #11 from Curtis J Blank 2011-08-08 02:07:30 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=444587) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=444587) Online update screwing up the boot file AGAIN!!!! -- 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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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666358 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666358#c12 --- Comment #12 from Curtis J Blank 2011-08-08 02:08:04 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=444588) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=444588) Online update screwing up the boot file AGAIN!!!! -- 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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New subject: [Bug 666358] pbl: Initial 11.3 installation and now Online Update make system unbootable

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666358 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666358#c13 --- Comment #13 from Steffen Winterfeldt 2011-08-08 10:39:30 CEST --- Sorry, I don't have the time atm. Just some thoughts: using '/' in label names is probably asking for trouble as it may give quite some tools a headache. If you don't want to use labels (as you apparently want if I compare your bad/good file examples) change /etc/sysconfig/storage::DEVICE_NAMES to something else (e.g. "device"). -- 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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21 Aug 21 Aug

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666358 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666358#c14 --- Comment #14 from Curtis J Blank 2011-08-21 16:08:39 UTC --- We use RHEL at work. By default RedHat labels all their disk '/', '/boot', '/tmp', '/usr', etc. And in the grub menu.lst use 'root=LABEL=/' and it works fine. Since at least RHEL 4 that I know of. So it should not be asking for trouble IMO. -- 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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22 Nov 22 Nov

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666358 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666358#c15 --- Comment #15 from Curtis J Blank 2012-11-22 21:29:11 UTC --- Over a year and this was never fixed??!! Let me guess, it's End Of Life now.... Nice support.... -- 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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