https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773495 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773495#c Andreas Jaeger changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |mchang@suse.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |snwint@suse.com |ovo.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=773495 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773495#c2 --- Comment #2 from Michael Chang 2012-08-01 06:53:18 UTC --- (In reply to comment #0)

I have noticed that the rescue mode is not user friendly at all. What would happen if you had to reinstall a distro on another partition that used Grub1?

You would loose Grub2 for 12.2. Yes?

It depends on how you install them and yes you would lost them. For sure you should install to boot sector and in new installed grub1 you chainload the bootsector and in turn it loads grub2 (but you have to manually add the config).

A lot of users whether newbies or intermediate are going to have a problem recovering Grub2. The help is NOT helpful at all.

It seems to me that grub2-setup (grub2-bios-setup) is enough to re-install your grub2 to the location, and chroot is not required. (but you have to mount the /boot partition you want rescue and specify locations of the core.img and boot.img to it). But if your rescure case is more complicated, you may have to run grub2 utilities in chrooted system which is being rescued ..

I remember back in the 11.x series, a gui "repair your system" was in place. Can you please add a script feature so that the Yast Boot Loader can be started to recover Grub. And, if possible run fsck?

Sorry I'm not aware of that gui (I always boot to rescue mode and try to fix things in command line), thus I need to take a look and understand it.

This applies to Grub1 and Grub2. It would be a life saver. Yes?

If we have done that before and you think it helpful, we should try to bring it back. Since now I'm not know how it works at all(and what scenarios it could support and limitations ..etc), I need some time to investigate how to work on it. And sorry I may have other high priority bugs interrupted so it may take some time .. Do you have any idea why "repair your system" was not is 12.x systems anymore? I think it must have a reason being dropped. -- 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=773495 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773495#c3 --- Comment #3 from Roman Bysh 2012-08-01 16:04:16 UTC --- If memory serves me well. Coolo pulled it. You'll have to speak to him. I know a lot of people used it and were satisfied with it. In the meantime, I will install one of the 11x series DVDs and have a look at it in VirtualBox. IMHO It reinstalled Grub1, ran a fsck check on all packages that were installed. If we could just bring back the Grub1 reinstaller. And, include Grub2. The rescue process for Grub2 takes a lot steps that most novice and intermediate users find difficult. Hence, adding it would be a 'real plus' for openSUSE. Rather than gui, bring it back using text. But the gui was nice. This is something that can be included for 2013. Yes? -- 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=773495 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773495#c5 --- Comment #5 from Roman Bysh 2012-08-01 16:46:29 UTC --- If a "gui" is out of the question, then a clever script can included on the DVD linked to a text menu. -- 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=773495 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773495#c7 Vladimir Perepechin changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |vovochka13@gmail.com --- Comment #7 from Vladimir Perepechin 2012-08-31 07:13:32 UTC --- +1 for bringing back rescue module. It was really useful tool. Current rescue system is almost useless. Booting from liveCD maybe more helpful, but not current rescue system. It's really only for pro-users. -- 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=773495 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773495#c9 Roman Bysh changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P5 - None |P2 - High Target Milestone|--- |Final --- Comment #9 from Roman Bysh 2013-11-14 23:45:48 UTC --- Follow Up Please add Grub2 rescue. Something similar to Ubuntu but openSUSE. -- 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=773495 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773495#c Roman Bysh changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version|RC 1 |Final -- 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.