[Bug 621497] New: "The boot loader is installing on a partition that doe not lie entirely below 128 GB"
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621497 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621497#c0 Summary: "The boot loader is installing on a partition that doe not lie entirely below 128 GB" Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.3 Version: RC 2 Platform: i586 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.3 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: m.j.thate@tele2.nl QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; nl; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100611 SUSE/3.6.4-3.2 Firefox/3.6.4 I allready brought in this problem, but it has not been accepted as a bug. I did a new installation with all partitions of about 100GB. The warning of "The boot loader is installing on a partition that does not lie entirely below 128 GB" still remains. But after the installation grub sees now al the other distroes. (Windows and Mandriva) I think this is caused by the type of GRUB (openSUSE uses the old GRUB version with menu.lst) When I installed for instance UBUNTU I always see all the distros, no matter the size of the partitions and I never see the 128GB warning. UBUNTU uses the new GRUB-PC version, which probes the other distro partitions the right way. (as far as I can see all the "RPM" distroes use the old GRUB with the menu.lst method and has the same limitation of partition size of 128 GB. To cope this problem you have to re-edit menu.lst with the missing title/kernel/initrd lines which is happily easy, using the grub or grub-pc difinitions of the other distroes) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621497 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621497#c Thies Thate <m.j.thate@tele2.nl> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary|"The boot loader is |"The boot loader is |installing on a partition |installing on a partition |that doe not lie entirely |that does not lie entirely |below 128 GB" |below 128 GB" -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621497 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621497#c yang xiaoyu <xyyang@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |xyyang@novell.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |jsrain@novell.com |ovo.novell.com | -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621497 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621497#c1 Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |m.j.thate@tele2.nl --- Comment #1 from Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> 2010-07-12 10:08:36 UTC --- Thies, is your /boot partition below 128GB or not? It is possible that this limit is void, it is possible that it is not. It depends on your BIOS, YaST cannot know which BIOS does support booting from
128GB disks and which don't.
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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621497 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621497#c2 --- Comment #2 from Thies Thate <m.j.thate@tele2.nl> 2010-07-12 10:46:04 UTC --- I think my knowledge is not enough to give an exact answer. But the situation is as follows: The size of the harddisk is 640GB I use the follwing primary partitions: /dev/sda 596.17 GB WDC-WD6400AAKS-7 /dev/sda1 97.65 GB HPFS/NTFS NTFS for Windows Vista /dev/sda2 996.22 MB Linux swap /dev/sda3 97.65 GB Linux native Ext4 for Mandriva 2010.1 /dev/sda4 100.00 GB Linux native Ext4 / for openSUSE 11.3 I installed openSUSE 11.3 as last distro the menu.lst is ############### # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on zo jul 11 21:01:57 CEST 2010 # THIS FILE WILL BE PARTIALLY OVERWRITTEN by perl-Bootloader # Configure custom boot parameters for updated kernels in /etc/sysconfig/bootloader default 0 timeout 8 ##YaST - generic_mbr gfxmenu (hd0,3)/boot/message ##YaST - activate ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title Desktop -- openSUSE 11.3 - 2.6.34-12 root (hd0,3) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.34-12-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD6400AAKS-75A7B2_WD-WMASY7572612-part4 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD6400AAKS-75A7B2_WD-WMASY7572612-part2 splash=silent quiet showopts vga=0x346 initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.34-12-desktop ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Failsafe -- openSUSE 11.3 - 2.6.34-12 root (hd0,3) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.34-12-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD6400AAKS-75A7B2_WD-WMASY7572612-part4 showopts apm=off noresume nosmp maxcpus=0 edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 nomodeset x11failsafe vga=0x346 initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.34-12-desktop ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux (/dev/sda3)### title linux (/dev/sda3) root (hd0,2) configfile /boot/grub/menu.lst ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows### title Windows rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy### title Diskette rootnoverify (fd0) chainloader +1 ############### Mandriva has been installed at sda3 but is not recognized as Mandriva. ############### I think, because all partitions are smaller than 128GB the /boot partition is always below 128GB. Or is this taken relatif with regard to the mbr (under windows) By the way, during installation I can choose many possibilities for booting. I always use the normal MBR. But that is not the standard advice openSUSE gives. I did not yet studied mij BIOS. If that is necessary I'll send more information. Regards, Thies ;] (In reply to comment #1)
Thies, is your /boot partition below 128GB or not?
It is possible that this limit is void, it is possible that it is not. It depends on your BIOS, YaST cannot know which BIOS does support booting from
128GB disks and which don't.
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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621497 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621497#c3 Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|jsrain@novell.com |juhliarik@novell.com --- Comment #3 from Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> 2010-07-12 11:07:45 UTC --- Ah, I see where the problem is: 'Below' in this case does not mean 'Smaller', but where they are located on the disk. This means, that if you have 5 partitions on a 300GB disk, each 60GB, first two are below 128GB, others are not. Jozef, consider changing the wording to something like 'entirely within the first 128GB of the disk'. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621497 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621497#c4 --- Comment #4 from Thies Thate <m.j.thate@tele2.nl> 2010-07-12 12:09:08 UTC --- Thanks for your explication. Experimenting with new distroes in multiboot makes it less easy if you have to take care of the 128GB boundary. I always use the /boot/grub of the last installed distro. Mostly I change the highest (sda4) partition with the new distro and I keep the sda1 partition always for Windows, the sda2 partion always as linux swap, the sda3 partition mostly for a longer time, also for a linux distro. Question: what can I do if the windows partition is let's say 200GB. Then you never have a linux boot partition below 128GB. But as I said using grub-pc seems not have this problem, using a special probing routine. In the mean time I studied my bios (AM inc V02.61) the SATA0 HardDisk is recognized as a HD with size 640GB with no resrictions. (as for older systems as I know.) (I work with a new Dell Studio Desktop 540 MT) (In reply to comment #3)
Ah, I see where the problem is: 'Below' in this case does not mean 'Smaller', but where they are located on the disk. This means, that if you have 5 partitions on a 300GB disk, each 60GB, first two are below 128GB, others are not.
Jozef, consider changing the wording to something like 'entirely within the first 128GB of the disk'.
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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621497 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621497#c5 Hartmut Braun <dh.braun@gmx.net> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |dh.braun@gmx.net --- Comment #5 from Hartmut Braun <dh.braun@gmx.net> 2010-08-08 19:57:09 UTC --- I have the same error. But I want to point out, that installing the older version 11.2 in the same partition (above 128 GB) with the same parameters works without problems! Therefore the error may not be in GRUB itself but in the installation routine of 11.3. -- Configure bugmail: http://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=621497 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621497#c6 theo opitz <fenriswoolf@gmx.net> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |fenriswoolf@gmx.net --- Comment #6 from theo opitz <fenriswoolf@gmx.net> 2010-08-23 16:32:00 UTC --- (In reply to comment #5)
I have the same error. But I want to point out, that installing the older version 11.2 in the same partition (above 128 GB) with the same parameters works without problems! Therefore the error may not be in GRUB itself but in the installation routine of 11.3.
same here ... never had any trouble before 11.3 ... i tried to install 11.3 on a different pc with its own hdd, same thing ... seems to be systemic to 11.3 .. theo -- 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=621497 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621497#c Jozef Uhliarik <juhliarik@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|juhliarik@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=621497 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621497#c7 --- Comment #7 from Josef Reidinger <jreidinger@novell.com> 2010-10-04 08:52:29 UTC --- OK, I am not maintainer of y2bl, so could you please explain what exactly is wrong? Message, don't detect other OS or it doesn't boot at all? And could you please attach y2logs ( so I can see what happen inside installer)? -- 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=621497 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621497#c8 --- Comment #8 from theo opitz <fenriswoolf@gmx.net> 2010-10-04 12:25:14 UTC --- this is not my bug, but i ran into the same problem on two of my pc. the issue is that the downloaded distro of 11.3 has got a major bootloader problem. when trying to make a new install, an error message is displayed: Bootloader is installed on a partition that does not lie entirely below 128 GB. The system might not boot. at the install overview. after that the install completes, but the system will not boot into suse. i tinkered a little and devised a method to get around this, but it's not very elegant (see bug 638232) theo -- 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=621497 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621497#c9 Josef Reidinger <jreidinger@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |RESOLVED InfoProvider|m.j.thate@tele2.nl | Resolution| |NORESPONSE --- Comment #9 from Josef Reidinger <jreidinger@novell.com> 2010-12-03 16:31:36 UTC --- no response more then two months. Feel free to attach it and reopen bug report. -- 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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