https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=290959#c4
--- Comment #4 from Richard Creighton 2007-09-02 13:05:16 MST ---
I suggest the reason it 'works for you' has more to do with your equipment than
the script. I believe the change from calling IDE drives HDn to SDn has
caused many unanticipated side effects including this one. This bug will bite
anyone that has a mixed hardware architecture, ie, 1 or more IDE drives and 1
or more SATA drives upon which the 10.3 upgrade is being installed. Because of
the rename between versions, the script will write the changed files to the new
SDAn drive which is the old physical HDAn device whih causes the failure.
Unless you have a mixed hardware architecture when you test and unless you have
the 10.3 on a SATA drive and the SATA is renamed by the kernel version upgrade,
you will not experience the privilege of seeing the bug in action so of course,
it will 'work for you'. I don't know who thought of renaming HDn to SDn in
mixed architecture hardware systems, but it was ill conceived and has caused me
and undoubtedly many thousands of others many headaches. When Novell upgrades
from 10.2 and earlier to it's customers that have both IDE and SATA hardware,
expect big problems unless you take the time to evalulate this renaming scheme
a little more fully. Now is the time to take this bug and see it for what it
really is and not dismiss it so casually as 'works for me'. Give it to
someone that has the proper hardware to be affected by it and let them
troubeshoot it. I assure you it is real. This bug has been reported in
several dozen different forms in bugzilla and the root cause is the same in
each case. I want SuSE and Novell to suceed which is why I am a beta tester
and volunteer my equipment and time for free. I risk damage to my equipment
knowing that beta software can damage it. I accept that. What I can't accept
is 'works for me' without examining the root cause of reported failures. Now
that I hope you understand that there is a root cause beyond the symptom of
'won't boot after upgrade', dig into it more deeply, but don't write it off.
That makes your free beta testers feel worthless and ultimately dooms Novell to
failure and with that failure, your job is moot as well. I hope you can see
that. I know you are busy and probably under a lot of pressure with a large
workload, but this one is very important, don't let it go so casually.
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