[Bug 230876] New: Installation of 10.2 would not get past the boot loader install
From what I can tell this all stems back to the SATA drive and boot loader install problem. This has caused a lot of data loss and reconstruction of the computer. Everything but the LVM was backed up. I am hoping that I can recover
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=230876 Summary: Installation of 10.2 would not get past the boot loader install Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Critical Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: bdorner@novell.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com The installation went fine until it came to the boot loader. Initially I tried to upgrade from 10.1 to 10.2, but that failed when it came to loading the boot loader. The error was, I believe, 3003. Something to do with not being able to find the device or location of the boot sector. In this process of upgrading it had corrupted the boot sector and my computer was no longer bootable, nor was I able to repair the damage. The original file system was reiserFS with a large LVM attached. I kept several partions on the hard drives so that I could format the '/', boot, and usr partitions as needed. Sense I was unable to load anything from the hard drives I tried a new install on the root, boot, and usr partitions, leaving the home and LVM untouched. The new install went fine until I got to the boot loader install. It died again in the same spot and with the same error. This is a computer that has worked fine with the last 3 versions of SUSE. The last thing I did to the computer, several months ago, was to install a SATA hard drive. So I removed it from the system and tried to install 10.2 again. This time the install worked, except I had lost all data on all drives. I only formated the partions listed above. The Home partition was on the SATA drive that I removed, but the LVM was left untouched. So I plugged in the SATA drive and restarted the computer. There was a conflict with the partitions, 2 home partitions. The only solution was to format the old home directory, it wouldn't let me do anything else until I did that. So now everything appeared to work except the LVM. The only option that it would give me was to format the LVM's. I didn't want to do this but that appeared to be the only option. When I tried to format the LVM it says they are in use and that I would need to remove the mapping. When I tried to remove the mapping it says I can't because there is a logical association, I believe that is what it says, connected to it. I then get stuck in the LVM circle from ... So now I have 700 GIG's of LVM that I can't get to or use. the LVM and not lose the data, but the install did something to the drive mappings and so far I can't mount any of the drives associated with the LVM. I also can't reconstruct, remove, or do anything else with it. The computer is: AMD 64 3 ghz 1 gig ram MSI neo motherboard Approximately 900 MB of hard drive space ( 700 MB on IDE system, 200 MB SATA) -- 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=230876 ------- Comment #1 from bdorner@novell.com 2006-12-28 09:23 MST ------- I started to play with the command-line LVM commands and was finally able to remove the physical and logical volumns. I then went into the install disks and choose to repair the drives. It found several problems with the partitions. Once those were fixed I was able to go into yast and recreate the LVM, formatting the drives. Of course this meant that I lost all of my data, but I have some backups and it is better to have some data loss but gain the use of my computer. It all appears to have come down to having a mixed SATA and IDE hard drive setup. Once I disconnected the SATA HD I was able to install, but by then the damage was done. Once it installed I was able to connect the SATA HD again and the do the steps above the computer now works. -- 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=230876 chrubis@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team- |fehr@novell.com |screening@forge.provo.novell| |.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=230876 fehr@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|fehr@novell.com |odabrunz@novell.com ------- Comment #2 from fehr@novell.com 2006-12-30 04:50 MST ------- No idea why this got assigned to me, I am not involved in update nor in bootloader setup. Reassigned to bootloader maintainer. -- 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=230876 stefan.fent@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |bdorner@novell.com ------- Comment #3 from stefan.fent@novell.com 2007-01-23 04:45 MST ------- Can you please append the YaST2 logs and the grub configuration files: /etc/grub.conf, /boot/grub/menu.lst, /boot/grub/device.map. -- 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=230876 bdorner@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|odabrunz@novell.com |bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|bdorner@novell.com | ------- Comment #4 from bdorner@novell.com 2007-04-10 10:45 MST ------- I am unable to provide the logs because the drives were reformatted in the process of completing comment 1. The computer was also rebuilt again in the past few months. This bug might as well be closed unless you have another idea. -- 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=230876 chrubis@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team- |odabrunz@novell.com |screening@forge.provo.novell| |.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=230876 odabrunz@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |INVALID ------- Comment #5 from odabrunz@novell.com 2007-05-11 09:07 MST ------- It is near to impossible to find out anything about this bug if neither the exact error message is known nor logs are available. The error "3003" is unknown to me, and I could not find anything that really fits in the grub and/or lilo docs. It seems this bug cannot make any progress. Therefore I am closing it. Because we could not really identify the error at all, I am setting the resolution to INVALID. If you can reproduce this bug, please reopen it (or open a new bug) and include the error message and the YaST2 logs. Instructions can be found here: http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs/YaST. -- 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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