Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1502 mails)

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday April 3 2009, josef reidinger wrote:
> Randall R Schulz napsal(a):
> > Hi,
> >
> > Partway through the package installation phase of a from-scratch
> > openSUSE 11.1 installation, the process hung. The last package
> > shown being installed was grub (the hang occurred when it showed
> > 100% of the package installed). I switched to VC 9 and ran ps. The
> > command "grub --batch" was consuming 100% CPU. In fact, it still
> > is. At this moment, it has used over 40 minutes of CPU time.
> >
> > Has anybody seen this? Do you know what the problem is? Do you know
> > how to solve it?
> >
> >
> > Randall Schulz
>
> Hi, grub --batch uses perl-Boorloader to write grub first stage to
> some position (MBR or partition). So please attach /etc/grub.conf
> (and also /etc/boot/device.map which is used as device translator)
> which is input for this command, maybe it is not correctly writted.
> JR

The system boots fine.

/etc/grub.conf:
-==-
setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 --force-lba (hd0) (hd2,0)
quit
-==-

There is no /etc/boot directory. Do you mean /boot/grub/device.map?

/boot/grub/device.map:
-==-
(hd1)   /dev/sda
(hd0)   /dev/sdc
(hd2)   /dev/sdb
-==-


Randall Schulz
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