[Bug 676416] New: updating 11.3 to 11.4 via zypper dist: system start gives GRUB without anything.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676416 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676416#c0 Summary: updating 11.3 to 11.4 via zypper dist: system start gives GRUB without anything. Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.4 Version: RC 2 Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: SuSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Bootloader AssignedTo: jsrain@novell.com ReportedBy: roeland@linux-it.nl QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 SUSE/3.6.13-3.1 Firefox/3.6.13 the system ran 11.3 patched on KVM (e.g. /dev/vda1 for boot and /dev/vda2 for the rest) -- I changed the installation sources to point to 11.4 and did a dist upgrade via zypper. all went well, no error at all. Restarted the system and the system ended with GRUB without any error at all. Using rescue, was not able to find /dev/vda2, the rootfs. Collegue of mine who had vnc access, used http://bugs.gentoo.org/259613 and fixed the setup with that bug info. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. use kvm 11.3 2. change inst source to 11.4 (rc2 at the moment) 3. dist upgrade and reboot Actual Results: GRUB is displayed, no boot Expected Results: it should come up http://bugs.gentoo.org/259613 seems to be the fix -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676416 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676416#c1 Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |roeland@linux-it.nl --- Comment #1 from Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> 2011-03-04 08:15:10 UTC --- Do you have correct /etc/grub.conf matching your system set? I mean, e.g. if you have GRUB in MBR and grub.conf points to a boot sector only, it may be natural that the GRUB from MBR fails after upgrade. I can check it if you can attach /etc/grub.conf and contents of your MBR (and, if possible, also information about partitioning and /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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676416 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676416#c2 --- Comment #2 from roeland jansen <roeland@linux-it.nl> 2011-03-04 12:22:41 UTC --- I would assume that the files were correct since they were generated when installing oS11.3 on the virtual machine. the base install was done on the VM (KVM) by using teh iso image and install without any changes. Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 5160576 4141152 967008 82% / devtmpfs 245164 152 245012 1% /dev tmpfs 251684 4 251680 1% /dev/shm /dev/mapper/system-root 5160576 4141152 967008 82% / /dev/mapper/system-home 1032088 660896 371192 65% /home /dev/mapper/system-srv 1032088 905052 127036 88% /srv /dev/vda1 69972 46051 23921 66% /boot /etc/grub.conf contained: setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 --force-lba (hd0,10) (hd0,0) quit I'll attach the backup_mbr separately. Note that it has been fixed using the mentioned gentoo info. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676416 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676416#c3 roeland jansen <roeland@linux-it.nl> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW InfoProvider|roeland@linux-it.nl | --- Comment #3 from roeland jansen <roeland@linux-it.nl> 2011-03-04 12:23:49 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=417569) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=417569) backup_mbr -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676416 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676416#c4 Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |roeland@linux-it.nl --- Comment #4 from Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> 2011-03-07 13:29:43 UTC --- grub.conf says that GRUB should be installed to 11th partition (hd0,10) - do you have any? And even if you do, the generic code in your MBR can only load GRUB from a primary partition. That I think explains why your system does not boot after upgrade any more. The question is how did (hd0,10) appear in your grub.conf; do you have any idea and are you sure it contained something else before you run upgrade? Otherwise I don't see many possibilities to fix this bug... -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676416 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676416#c5 roeland jansen <roeland@linux-it.nl> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW InfoProvider|roeland@linux-it.nl | --- Comment #5 from roeland jansen <roeland@linux-it.nl> 2011-03-07 14:10:46 UTC --- Jiri, the only thing I can tell at this point is this: stat grub.conf.old (renamed to be able to boot) tells us: File: `grub.conf.old' Size: 67 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: fd01h/64769d Inode: 96807 Links: 1 Access: (0600/-rw-------) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) Access: 2011-03-07 14:59:30.096926576 +0100 Modify: 2010-03-22 20:12:44.639824453 +0100 Change: 2011-03-02 11:59:05.673740333 +0100 Birth: - It was created initially when the system was set up. I am pretty confident that it was in fact the original code. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676416 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676416#c6 Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |roeland@linux-it.nl --- Comment #6 from Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> 2011-03-08 12:20:56 UTC --- This means that the file was not modified during upgrade - still, it is not correct. Which means that the bug as it was reported is not valid. There is, however, another bug - the file was created incorrectly. Are you able to find out how/when/why exactly it was created this way (ideally reproduce it) and provide logs of that installation? -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676416 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676416#c Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jsrain@novell.com AssignedTo|jsrain@novell.com |jreidinger@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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676416 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676416#c7 roeland jansen <roeland@linux-it.nl> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW InfoProvider|roeland@linux-it.nl | --- Comment #7 from roeland jansen <roeland@linux-it.nl> 2011-03-10 11:57:41 UTC --- those logs are not there anymore. At least where I looked. What I recollect from memory is that we did a migration to a different data center; it then didn't want to boot, so a fresh install was done, followed by restoring the user data. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676416 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676416#c Ihno Krumreich <ihno@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- OS/Version|SUSE Other |openSUSE 11.4 -- 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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