https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=228290 Summary: Yast2 Xen virtual machine installation ends up with "Error 2: Bad file or directory type" when installing GRUB Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: SuSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: aleksander.adamowski.novell@altkom.pl QAContact: jsrain@novell.com I'm trying to install a new Xen virtual machine using Yast2 on openSuSe 10.2 final on a x86_64 machine. All goes well until after package installation it comes to GRUB installation. When trying to install GRUB, the following error occurs: ┌────────────────────┐ Finishing Basic Installation ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Error occurred while installing GRUB. │ │┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐│ ││ ││ ││ 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 possi││ ││ completions of a device/filename. ] ││ ││grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0,0) (hd0,0) ││ ││ Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no ││ ││ Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... no ││ ││ ││ ││Error 2: Bad file or directory type ││ ││grub> quit ┴│ │└├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤────┘│ │ [OK] │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │ └────────────────────┘ [Back] [Abort] [Next] According to GRUB docs (http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Stage2-errors.html): 2 : Bad file or directory type This error is returned if a file requested is not a regular file, but something like a symbolic link, directory, or FIFO. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.