https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=279837 ------- Comment #1 from Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com 2007-06-01 00:56 MST ------- Created an attachment (id=143421) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=143421&action=view) error message from grub ( create a Boot Record) -- 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, or are watching someone who is.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=279837 Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu- | |siemens.com | ------- Comment #3 from Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com 2007-06-05 01:11 MST ------- Created an attachment (id=144085) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=144085&action=view) requested y2logs -- 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, or are watching someone who is.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=279837 ------- Comment #4 from Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com 2007-06-14 07:53 MST ------- Update for openSUSE 10.3 Alpha5 : With the new release I see additional problems - I wanted to overwrite my previous openSUSE 10.3 Alpha4 installation ( and keep the other distributions ) : 1 ) first try with reformatting the partions - installation starts, but fails formatting the partition system code : -3030 2 ) second try - deleting just the data in the partition and start a new installation without format - this does not work, because the installer does not see the correct format of the partition - you see just DM RAID 3 ) third try - deleting the partition and allocation of a new root partition, same as 1) installation starts, but fails formatting the partition system code : -3030 summary - currently I am failing to install openSUSE 10.3 Alpha5 together with rhel5/fedora on a system with FastTrek S150 TX4 controller. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=279837#c6 --- Comment #6 from Richard Creighton 2007-07-22 11:39:07 MST --- This is not limited to DMRaid or to Promise. Alpha-6 just 'ate' my 10.3a5 system that I had added a MD5 1TB software raid to. When GRUB wrote the partition table/FSTAB, it wiped it clean. I ended up reinstalling 10.3a5 after removing the 4 disk Raid set which fortunately were revivable. I also revived my /home which was on a separate drive but I spent many hours finding RPMs that had libraries that restored XMMS, XINE, Video Lan, Media Player and others that I had imported from 10.2 but which aren't properly supported yet in 10.3aX. I use an ASUS M2NPV-VM w/3gig 1TBraid 5 120G bootable IDE drive. -- 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=279837 Matej Horvath changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com |stefan.fent@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.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=279837#c10 Winfrid Tschiedel changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com | --- Comment #10 from Winfrid Tschiedel 2007-10-25 01:33:17 MST --- Hello Stefan, This bug has a long history and during evaluation of openSUSE 10.3 additional problems came up, so at some stage it was even not possible to install a systems. So we should now concentrate on the problem - grub should be able to write a bootrecord to a partition to support multiboot via chainloader. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Gentoo_with_NVRAID_using_dmraid 6.5.1 Installing grub Method 1 describes how to write a bootrecord other than MBR. This method works e.g. for ubuntu and redhat base distributions, but it fails in case of openSUSE ( 279837#7 ). Which is the correct way to install a bootrecord to dmraid controlled diskconfiguartion on NOVELL ? Please keep in mind, that some SATA RAID contollers support only RAID disks. Just a note, none of the distributions was able to write during installation a bootrecord to a partition, all the time an MBR was written, but one could fix the problem later with the above described method. At RedHat I have opened an entry for this problem : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225551 I hope this helps. Winfrid -- 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=279837#c11 --- Comment #11 from Winfrid Tschiedel 2007-11-27 00:47:33 MST --- In the meantime I found a bypass for booting openSUSE when the MBR was not written by openSUSE. If I specify in "menu.lst" a configfile for openSUSE, I am able to boot openSUSE without writing a bootrecord to the root-filesystem. Nevertheless I would prefer to have a bootrecord in "/" and use the chainloader for booting. Winfrid -- 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=279837 User Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=279837#c13 Winfrid Tschiedel changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|LATER | --- Comment #13 from Winfrid Tschiedel 2007-12-13 00:53:28 MST --- Problem exists also for openSUSE 11.0 Alpha0. Maybe you should address the problem there. Winfrid -- 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=279837 Stanislav Visnovsky changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |visnov@novell.com Component|Installation |Booting -- 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=279837 Joachim Plack changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|jplack@novell.com |juhliarik@novell.com Status|REOPENED |NEW -- 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=279837 User Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=279837#c17 --- Comment #17 from Winfrid Tschiedel 2008-07-30 07:39:12 MDT --- Created an attachment (id=230770) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=230770) y2logs for openSUSE 11.1 Alpha1 installation Please remind - this dmraid based installation for openSUSE 11.1 is done on a system with a working dmraid. openSUSE must not write a MBR - it should only write a bootrecord to "/" - in this case to /dev/mapper/pdc_cjgdhdfafh_part8 also /boot is no separate partition. -- 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=279837 User Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=279837#c19 --- Comment #19 from Winfrid Tschiedel 2008-08-06 08:17:00 MDT --- Today I tried SLES 11 Alpha1 - Basically the same problems as on openSUSE 11.1 Alpha1, but system cannot be rebooted after installation - the bootprocess is aborted with "invalid rootpartition". Winfrid -- 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=279837 User Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=279837#c21 --- Comment #21 from Winfrid Tschiedel 2008-08-07 05:37:35 MDT --- (In reply to comment #19 from Winfrid Tschiedel)

Today I tried SLES 11 Alpha1 - Basically the same problems as on openSUSE 11.1 Alpha1, but system cannot be rebooted after installation - the bootprocess is aborted with "invalid rootpartition". Winfrid

Just an addon - the message invalid root partition is caused by the actual SLES 11 kernel - in a quick and dirty way I copied the openSUSE 11.1 kernel to SLES 11, with this kernel the system was bootable and I could continue with the second part of the installation. -- 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=279837 User juhliarik@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=279837#c22 Jozef Uhliarik changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|juhliarik@novell.com |jreidinger@novell.com Status|ASSIGNED |NEW --- Comment #22 from Jozef Uhliarik 2008-09-17 06:05:19 MDT --- I did checking of logs and the problem is in perl-Bootloader and wrong settings for installing grub. from logs: 2008-07-29 17:38:22 <1> linux(3121) [YCP] bootloader/routines/lib_iface.ycp:192 Storing global settings $[ "boot_mbr":"true", "default":"openSUSE 11.0.42", "lines_cache_id":"9", "timeout":"8" ] grub.conf: setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 --force-lba (hd0,0) (hd0,7) (hd0,0) seems to be wrong ;-) Josef it seems to be problem of perl-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.