[Bug 249873] New: grub and lilo fail to install on sata drive
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=249873 Summary: grub and lilo fail to install on sata drive Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Alpha 1 Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Blocker Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: sgt-d@sodpit.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com suse 10.3 alpha 1 64 bit mobo: asus a8n32-sli drive: sata wd raptors (74gb versions), in raid 0 sata connector on mobo: nforce4 / silicone graphics / nv raid setup runs perfectly until right after all of the packages finally install. (of course getting to this point takes a full hour) at this point it attempts to install grub which always fails with: grub error: stage2 .. and .. dmraid grub> setup --stage2=boot/grub/stage2 (hd0) (/dec/hda,1) Error 23: Error while parsing number grub> quit lilo was also attempted but also fails to install. example: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=511076 -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=249873 chrubis@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |sgt-d@sodpit.com ------- Comment #1 from chrubis@novell.com 2007-03-02 09:25 MST ------- Please attach y2logs from this installation. If you are in doubt follow: http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs/YaST Thanks! -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=249873 ------- Comment #2 from sgt-d@sodpit.com 2007-03-03 09:50 MST ------- yast2 logs are physically impossible to retrieve. there is no valid bootable os after grub fails. we were able to hack in later, but it only worked one time, and we had no way to access other drives or hardware, so there would have been no way for us to copy logs off of that machine. i do not know if this matters or not, but this is a well known problem. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=249873 chrubis@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team- |odabrunz@novell.com |screening@forge.provo.novell| |.com | Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|sgt-d@sodpit.com | -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=249873 fabrice29@gmail.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |fabrice29@gmail.com ------- Comment #3 from fabrice29@gmail.com 2007-03-20 15:48 MST ------- I voted for this bug as I had the same problem with 10.2 final and will probably with 10.3alpha but I'm stuck before reaching this step -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=249873 stefan.fent@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Severity|Blocker |Critical ------- Comment #4 from stefan.fent@novell.com 2007-04-10 09:41 MST ------- This should be fixed with the latest perl-Bootloader. Other than that - there is an easy workaround, thus no blocker for a alpha version, decreasing severity. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=249873 stefan.fent@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |sgt-d@sodpit.com ------- Comment #5 from stefan.fent@novell.com 2007-05-10 09:41 MST ------- still happening with Alpha3? -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=249873 ------- Comment #6 from fabrice29@gmail.com 2007-05-17 10:53 MST ------- I still had the problem with alpha4 (new install). I fixed it adding manually (hd1) /dev/sda in my device.map because yast forgot it. my config is: 1 IDE drive with Opensuse detected as sda 1 SATA with XP detected as sdb Grub is installed in the MBR. I also had to map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) to cheat windows. I leave it as NEEDINFO as I'm not the original info provider (darren winter) -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=249873 ------- Comment #7 from sgt-d@sodpit.com 2007-05-17 17:50 MST ------- thanks for the follow ups. i will try to get my brother to test the newest alpha this weekend or next. -- 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.
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Christoph Thiel
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--- Comment #9 from darren winter
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Christoph Thiel
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Hamish Morrison
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Stefan Fent
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--- Comment #12 from Hamish Morrison
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--- Comment #13 from darren winter
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darren winter
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Stefan Fent
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--- Comment #17 from darren winter
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--- Comment #18 from darren winter
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--- Comment #19 from Richard Creighton
ok, the installation keeps failing, over and over again, with the same error, but the log file you mentioned is never there.
This problem is directly related to https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=304657 Where they are similar is that they both involve mixed hardware, ie, IDE and SATA drives. In their infinite wisdom, someone decided that the age old idea of calling IDE drives HDxx and SCSI drives which somehow equated to SATA would be called SDxx. Then someone decided to call ALL drives SDxx including IDE drives and made the change during the kernel builds somewhere after 2.6.18. Beta versions 10 10.3 are past that point and if you notice, your IDE drives are called SDAx and your SAATA drives designations are bumped up one letter. Needless to say, a lot of programs, installers, drivers, you name it, needed to be updated and many including GRUB and LILO apparantly were not completely modified, nor was YAST2 - repair which was the subject of the above mentioned bug. All of the 'fixes' and workarounds mentioned above are efforts to force the system to not have mixed hardware, ie, only SATA or only IDE in which case, the software works until you again put the mixture back in place, then it is iffy again. Until the real, underlying problem is addressed, no amount of log files is going to help...they are always on the wrong drive from where you expect them to be. If you need logs, I uploaded some examples for that bug retrieved off of my supposedly immune 10.2 drive which was not supposed to be part of the 10.3 installation. It is no longer available for me to re-upload it for this bug but it should be of value to prove a point if you go fetch it. Again, the problem is the renaming of IDE drives to SDxx without allowing for it througout the entire Linux sytem of drivers and install programs. -- 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.
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Stephan Kulow
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--- Comment #24 from darren winter
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Stephan Kulow
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Torsten Duwe
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Hamish Morrison
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Torsten Duwe
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--- Comment #29 from Torsten Duwe
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darren winter
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