[Bug 537437] New: installing kernel-default and kernel-default-base results in *4* entries added to /boot/grub/menu.lst instead of 2

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[Bug 537437] New: installing kernel-default and kernel-default-base results in 4 entries added to /boot/grub/menu.lst instead of 2

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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537437 Summary: installing kernel-default and kernel-default-base results in *4* entries added to /boot/grub/menu.lst instead of 2 Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Bootloader AssignedTo: jsrain@novell.com ReportedBy: jnelson-suse@jamponi.net QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.0.13) Gecko/2009080200 SUSE/3.0.13-0.1.2 Firefox/3.0.13 installing kernel-default and kernel-default-base results in *4* entries added to /boot/grub/menu.lst instead of 2 I started with the following /boot/grub/menu.lst (between '====...') ================================================= # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Tue Sep 8 10:32:19 CDT 2009 default 4 timeout 8 ##YaST - generic_mbr ##YaST - activate gfxmenu (hd0,0)/message ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy### title Floppy rootnoverify (fd0) chainloader +1 ================================================= but got this (after installing kernel-default kernel-default-base): ================================================= # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Tue Sep 8 10:32:19 CDT 2009 default 4 timeout 8 ##YaST - generic_mbr ##YaST - activate gfxmenu (hd0,0)/message ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title openSUSE 11.1 - 2.6.27.29-0.1 (default) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.29-0.1-default resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST380215AS_5QZ4PJP0-part2 splash=silent showopts usbcore.autosuspend=1 initrd /initrd-2.6.27.29-0.1-default ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Failsafe -- openSUSE 11.1 - 2.6.27.29-0.1 (default) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.29-0.1-default showopts ide=nodma apm=off noresume edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 x11failsafe initrd /initrd-2.6.27.29-0.1-default ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title openSUSE 11.1 - 2.6.27.29-0.1 (default) kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz-2.6.27.29-0.1-default resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST380215AS_5QZ4PJP0-part2 splash=silent showopts usbcore.autosuspend=1 initrd (hd0,0)/initrd-2.6.27.29-0.1-default ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Failsafe -- openSUSE 11.1 - 2.6.27.29-0.1 (default) kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz-2.6.27.29-0.1-default showopts ide=nodma apm=off noresume edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 x11failsafe initrd (hd0,0)/initrd-2.6.27.29-0.1-default ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy### title Floppy rootnoverify (fd0) chainloader +1 ================================================= You'll note that the two sets of entries are slightly different - the first set uses: root (hd0,0) kernel /... initrd /.... and the second uses: kernel (hd0,0)/.... initrd (hd0,0)/.... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. -- Configure bugmail: http://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 537437] installing kernel-default and kernel-default-base results in *4* entries added to /boot/grub/menu.lst instead of 2

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537437 User jsrain@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537437#c1 Jiri Srain changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |jnelson-suse@jamponi.net AssignedTo|jsrain@novell.com |jreidinger@novell.com --- Comment #1 from Jiri Srain 2009-09-09 02:00:55 MDT --- Can you attach the logs? (/var/log/YaST2 directory)? -- Configure bugmail: http://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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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537437 User mrmazda@earthlink.net added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537437#c2 --- Comment #2 from Felix Miata 2009-09-09 06:31:00 MDT --- I started seeing this many months ago with 32 bit pae kernels and zypper dup. -- Configure bugmail: http://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 537437] installing kernel-default and kernel-default-base results in *4* entries added to /boot/grub/menu.lst instead of 2

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537437 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537437#c3 Josef Reidinger changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |RESOLVED Info Provider|jnelson-suse@jamponi.net | Resolution| |NORESPONSE --- Comment #3 from Josef Reidinger 2009-12-04 13:22:50 UTC --- no longs more then month. If you'll find it, then please reopen this bug and attach it. -- Configure bugmail: http://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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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537437 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537437#c4 --- Comment #4 from Jon Nelson 2010-01-05 01:39:26 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=334918) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=334918) yast2 logs Sometime similar happened again. removed the old kernel with rpm -e (was trying out the KOTD) installed new kernel with zypper in -f Attaching (most of) the contents of /var/log/YaST2/ -- Configure bugmail: http://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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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537437 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537437#c5 Jon Nelson changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|NORESPONSE | --- Comment #5 from Jon Nelson 2010-01-05 01:39:45 UTC --- reopening -- Configure bugmail: http://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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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537437 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537437#c6 --- Comment #6 from Jon Nelson 2010-01-05 01:41:35 UTC --- forgot to add /boot/grub/menu.lst The 2.6.31.8 kernel is correct. the 2.6.32.1-0.0.23.ed74c23 kernel was removed with rpm -e # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Mon Jan 4 18:33:29 CST 2010 # THIS FILE WILL BE PARTIALLY OVERWRITTEN by perl-Bootloader # Configure custom boot parameters for updated kernels in /etc/sysconfig/bootloader default 0 timeout 8 ##YaST - generic_mbr ##YaST - activate gfxmenu (hd0,0)/message ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title Desktop -- openSUSE 11.2 - 2.6.31.8-0.1 root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.8-0.1-desktop root=/dev/system/root resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST380215AS_5QZ4PJP0-part2 splash=silent showopts vga=0x314 initrd /initrd-2.6.31.8-0.1-desktop ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Failsafe -- openSUSE 11.2 - 2.6.31.8-0.1 root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.8-0.1-desktop root=/dev/system/root showopts ide=nodma apm=off noresume edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 x11failsafe initrd /initrd-2.6.31.8-0.1-desktop ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title Desktop -- openSUSE 11.2 - 2.6.32.1-0.0.23.ed74c23 root (hd0,0) #kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32.1-0.0.23.ed74c23-desktop root=/dev/system/root resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST380215AS_5QZ4PJP0-part2 splash=silent showopts vga=0x314 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32.1-0.0.23.ed74c23-desktop root=/dev/system/root resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST380215AS_5QZ4PJP0-part2 splash=silent showopts initrd /initrd-2.6.32.1-0.0.23.ed74c23-desktop ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Failsafe -- openSUSE 11.2 - 2.6.32.1-0.0.23.ed74c23 root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32.1-0.0.23.ed74c23-desktop root=/dev/system/root showopts ide=nodma apm=off noresume edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 x11failsafe initrd /initrd-2.6.32.1-0.0.23.ed74c23-desktop -- Configure bugmail: http://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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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537437 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537437#c7 --- Comment #7 from Jon Nelson 2010-01-05 15:34:22 UTC --- Additionally, I was pleased this morning to find that the kernel remove/install process had *also* guess wrong about which boot device to use, so it replaced root (hd0,0) with root (hd1,0) which is, in fact, wrong. -- Configure bugmail: http://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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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537437 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537437#c8 Josef Reidinger changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P5 - None |P2 - High Status|REOPENED |ASSIGNED --- Comment #8 from Josef Reidinger 2010-01-05 15:43:40 UTC --- OK, I look to logs why disc is not recognized. These two problems has same root problem. -- Configure bugmail: http://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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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537437 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537437#c9 Josef Reidinger changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |jnelson-suse@jamponi.net --- Comment #9 from Josef Reidinger 2010-01-05 16:36:43 UTC --- I look at logs and need few additional information as I found some strange informations: 1) You have two discs, first one is some kind of raid and second one is simple partitioned one. What kind of raid it is exactly, it is little strange device for me, as it looks like raid1 with only one device sda... and it is mdraid over whole partition? ( does it work without your modification? also metadata version looks newer then we are using) 2) Why is root (hd1,0) wrong? From logs I see that hd1,0 should be sdb1 which is separated boot needed for LVM, not? I think that hd0,0 is worse, because we do not support directly boot from LVM due to its limitations. So from logs it looks like old kernel has root hd0,0 which is LVM device and it is roots of problem. If it has hd1,0 (separated boot) all should work. New kernel get correctly hd1,0 because new kernel is on separated boot /dev/sdb1. Am I wrong? -- Configure bugmail: http://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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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537437 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537437#c10 Jon Nelson changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |ASSIGNED Info Provider|jnelson-suse@jamponi.net | --- Comment #10 from Jon Nelson 2010-01-05 16:49:56 UTC --- There is a bunch of stuff to address in your comment, so I'll do the best I can. In no particular order: /dev/sda is partitioned thusly: /dev/sda1 is a normal, linux (type 0x83) partition, marked for boot, and mounted on /boot. This corresponds to grub's (hd0,0) and is the *correct* boot device. /dev/sda2 is swap /dev/sda3 is Linux LVM which is what the other filesystems are carved out of. root (/) is /dev/system/root, and I also have other logical volumes. /dev/sdb is 1/2 of a RAID1. It is not partitioned. This device is actually exposed over the network to another machine. It may be safely ignored. (hd1,anything) should never be used for grub. (hd0,0) is not an LVM partition. It is a standard ext3-formatted partition for boot, mounted on /boot. (hd0,2) is the LVM partition. Hope this helps. -- Configure bugmail: http://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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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537437 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537437#c11 Josef Reidinger changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED --- Comment #11 from Josef Reidinger 2010-01-05 17:10:14 UTC --- OK, then I find where is problem. During update sda is switched with sdb (it sometimes happen, because kernel doesn't persistent mark disc). If you use persistent udev names in device.map it solves your problem (now it is default for opensuse). so instead of (hd0) /dev/sda (hd1) /dev/sdb you should use: (hd0) /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST380215AS_5QZ4PJP0 (hd1) #the second disc persistent name This is something which we cannot determine and only using persistent device names help (more information you can find here: http://en.opensuse.org/Persistent_Storage_Device_Names ). If problem happen again with persistent names please reopen bug. -- Configure bugmail: http://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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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537437 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537437#c12 --- Comment #12 from Jon Nelson 2010-01-05 17:31:20 UTC --- If that is true, what grub should be fixed to write out a persistent udev-style name when it creates device.map. -- Configure bugmail: http://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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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537437 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537437#c13 --- Comment #13 from Josef Reidinger 2010-01-05 18:02:55 UTC --- (In reply to comment #12)

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If that is true, what grub should be fixed to write out a persistent udev-style name when it creates device.map.

device.map create yast-bootloader during installation and it depends on your settings of storage. Storage can be set to uuid, id, path, label or kernel device. If you choose kernel of label (label is problematic as it is not defined for disc, only for partitions), then it use kernel device names. But as default is used udev persistant names. So you choose it or you update from old version of opensuse. -- Configure bugmail: http://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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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537437 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537437#c14 Felix Miata changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |mrmazda@earthlink.net --- Comment #14 from Felix Miata 2010-01-05 18:28:08 UTC --- I have trouble understanding your English Josef: Device.map cannot create anything. It is neither a binary executable nor a script. What is your first phrase supposed to mean? What does "settings of storage" mean? Are you referring to some file in /etc/sysconfig? If so, which? "Choose kernel of label" what, where and when? I don't understand. What does your last sentence mean? Did you mean chose rather than choose, as in during initial installation or while running YaST2? -- Configure bugmail: http://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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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537437 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537437#c15 --- Comment #15 from Josef Reidinger 2010-01-05 19:00:29 UTC --- (In reply to comment #14)

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I have trouble understanding your English Josef: OK, I have problem that my brain is faster then fingers and my text is sometime not so easy to understand.

1) first sentence should be passive, os device.map is created by yast-bootloader during instalation ... 2) settings of storage is configuration inside yast2-storage ( sometime called partitioner ) where you specify "mount by" and same type of device names is used in bootloader (yast2-bootloader uses yast2-storage). This settings is written to /etc/sysconfig/storage key DEVICE_NAMES 3) ah typo, it should be If you choose kernel device or label (label is mount by partition label so it act same as if you choose kernel device, because label is not set for discs) 4) yes, past simple. You can chose it during installation and then if you want change it, you must change settings in storage (partitioner) and then re-propose device.map for bootloader. I hope I describe it better now. -- Configure bugmail: http://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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[Bug 537437] New: installing kernel-default and kernel-default-base results in 4 entries added to /boot/grub/menu.lst instead of 2