Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3110 mails)

[Moby <moby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Josef Reidinger wrote:
> Moby wrote:
>   
> > I have had a system running fine since oss 10.1 (upgraded from there on
> > to the current nightmare that is 11.1).
> >
> > Here is the system disk layout:
> >
> > Two 300 GB SATA hard drives - sda and sdba
> > sda1 and sdb1 are 130 MG, them mirrored using md raid into /dev/md0. 
> > /dev/md0 has ext3 mounted as /boot.
> > sda2 and sdb2 are 1 GB, then mirrored using md raid into /dev/md1. 
> > /dev/md1 is swap.
> > sda3 and sdb3 are 274 GB, then mirrored using md raid into /dev/md2. 
> > /dev/md2 has lvm on it, with / being /dev/system/system.
> > Grub installed in mbr of sda.
> >
> > This system has been running great.  I upgraded in-place from 11.0 to
> > 11.1, and everything was still fine.
> > Then I built a custom kernel (as I have done with all other versions -
> > the only thing I change is set the processor type).  During the custom
> > kernel install phase, make modules_install worked fine, but I noticed
> > some weird device-mapper "no such file or device" error message during
> > make install.  I did not think much of it (probably a BIG mistake). 
> > Verified new vmlinuz and initrd were in place and /boot/grub/menu.lst
> > looked kosher.  Rebooted the system, and it went to pot.
> >
> >     
>
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463451
>
> JR
>   
Thanks Josef, I had seen the issue mentioned in that bug and worked 
around it (there was a patch for Tools.pm in bootloader mentioned 
somewhere).  However, having put a work around in place for this bug 
still does not do anything to help with the Grub issue.

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--Moby

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety 
deserve neither liberty nor safety.  -- Benjamin Franklin


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