[opensuse-autoinstall] Grub Error 21: Selected disk does not exist

18 Aug 2010

      Hello all,

I'm testing a new autoyast.xml for OpenSUSE 11.3 and at the end of 
stage1 of the installation I'm getting this error:

GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)

[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB
lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
completions of a device/filename.]

grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 --force-lba (hd0) (hd0,4)
Error 21: Selected disk  does not exist
grub> quit

This is quite strange, because all partitions were created successfully 
without any complains, but grub seems unable to install in der MBR.

I found that in the grub "disk order settings" "/dev/sda" is defined - 
this doesn't seem to work anny more in 11.3?
Changing to "/dev/disk/by-id/ata-XXX" by hand solved that, but breaks 
the complete auto installation process - is there another solution?

The bootloader part of my autoyast.xml looks like this:

<bootloader>
     <device_map config:type="list">
       <device_map_entry>
         <firmware>hd0</firmware>
         <linux>/dev/sda/</linux>
       </device_map_entry>
     </device_map>
     <global>
       <activate>true</activate>
       <default>Desktop -- openSUSE 11.3 -- 2.6.34-12</default>
       <generic_mbr>true</generic_mbr>
       <gfxmenu>(hd0,4)/message</gfxmenu>
       <lines_cache_id>4</lines_cache_id>
       <timeout config:type="integer">8</timeout>
     </global>
     <initrd_modules config:type="list">
       <initrd_module>
         <module>thermal</module>
       </initrd_module>
       <initrd_module>
         <module>ata_piix</module>
       </initrd_module>
       <initrd_module>
         <module>ata_generic</module>
       </initrd_module>
       <initrd_module>
         <module>piix</module>
       </initrd_module>
       <initrd_module>
         <module>ide_pci_generic</module>
       </initrd_module>
       <initrd_module>
         <module>processor</module>
       </initrd_module>
       <initrd_module>
         <module>fan</module>
       </initrd_module>
       <initrd_module>
         <module>ahci</module>
       </initrd_module>
       <initrd_module>
         <module>pata_atiixp</module>
       </initrd_module>
       <initrd_module>
         <module>atiixp</module>
       </initrd_module>
     </initrd_modules>
     <loader_type>grub</loader_type>
     <sections config:type="list">
       <section>
         <append>resume=/dev/sda6 splash=silent quiet crashkernel= 
showopts</append>
         <image>(hd0,4)/vmlinuz-2.6.34-12-desktop</image>
         <initial>1</initial>
         <initrd>(hd0,4)/initrd-2.6.34-12-desktop</initrd>
         <lines_cache_id>0</lines_cache_id>
         <name>Desktop -- openSUSE 11.3 --</name>
         <original_name>linux</original_name>
         <root>/dev/sda7</root>
         <type>image</type>
         <vgamode>0x31a</vgamode>
       </section>
       <section>
         <append>showopts apm=off noresume nosmp maxcpus=0 edd=off 
powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 
x11failsafe</append>
         <image>(hd0,4)/vmlinuz-2.6.34-12-desktop</image>
         <initrd>(hd0,4)/initrd-2.6.34-12-desktop</initrd>
         <lines_cache_id>1</lines_cache_id>
         <name>Failsafe -- openSUSE 11.3 --</name>
         <original_name>failsafe</original_name>
         <root>/dev/sda7</root>
         <type>image</type>
         <vgamode>0x31a</vgamode>
       </section>
     </sections>
   </bootloader>

Any ideas? Thanks!

Regards,
Ivan
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[opensuse-autoinstall] Grub Error 21: Selected disk does not exist

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