https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483175 Summary: system never boots from any disks of software raid1 (upgraded from hosed raid1 opensuse 11.0) Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: i386 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.1 Status: NEW Severity: Critical Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: abittner@stud.fh-heilbronn.de QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- Created an attachment (id=277855) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=277855) clean 11.0 x86 with raid1 - logfiles. system unable to boot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3) Gecko/20090305 Firefox/3.1b3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) experimenting with simple raid1 setup (two sata disks, sda and sdb) one / and one swap partition, becoming md0 and md1. an already messed up (same problem: opensuse 11.0 never boots from any of the sata drives, apparently grub never gets installed anywhere) opensuse 11.0 system was taken as a base, and i tried to fix it by applying opensuse 11.1 to it. opensuse 11.1 recognized md0 and md1 properly, upgraded the packages and even executed the new system (kexec instead of real re-boot) fine. did some yast2 online_updates in this first kexec-bootup of the upgraded 11.1 system i have read through a number of bugs and i think first of all this 11.0 bug was never really fixed: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=398356 as it should have been gone by 11.1 rtm. after the first real reboot of 11.1 after the online_upgrades the system never boots. i tried to manually select my sata disks from bios boot-menu during POST, but it never boots from any of the two sata disks in opensuse 11.1 either. also using the opensuse 11.0 (back during messed up state of 11.0) to try to "boot from harddisk" never works, and "boot from harddisk" in 11.1 also doesnt help any either. i also fail to see how this can have the status of fixed: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439518 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438644 i can try some additional completely clean 11.1 from scratch installs and see what happens there, but i doubt that it will help. also this whole thread talks about the huge grub/swraid1 mess in recent opensuse versions: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2009-02/msg00509.html :( Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. upgrade opensuse 11.0 software raid1 to opensuse 11.1 2. try to reboot your 11.1 machine 3. -- 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.