[Bug 930341] New: Tumbleweed 20150508 unbootable after install
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=930341 Bug ID: 930341 Summary: Tumbleweed 20150508 unbootable after install Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Factory Version: 201503* Hardware: x86-64 OS: SUSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation Assignee: yast2-maintainers@suse.de Reporter: nrickert@ameritech.net QA Contact: jsrain@suse.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.21 (KHTML, like Gecko) konqueror/4.14.6 Safari/537.21 Build Identifier: Installed Tumbleweed 20150508 on laptop, using the DVD installer (64bit). Install is to an already existing encrypted LVM, with "/boot" as "/dev/sda5" using legacy MBR partitioning. My plan was to boot via the Windows boot manager. The initial boot configuration was: boot from "/boot" boot from extended partition set active flag install generic boot code into MBR. I turned off all but the first of those (to boot from "/boot"). I later went back and rechecked. The boot settings had turned on "set active flag" and "install generic boot code". I turned them off again. I then went back into the boot section again. And the same problem. The installer is stupidly insisting on this. I eventually allowed the install to go through anyway. Of course, it would not boot. The active flag had been set to the extended partition ("/dev/sda4") but there was no boot code in that partition. I had to change the boot flags (with a rescue boot) back to the Windows partition before I could boot. I'll note that this did not happen with install of 13.2 to the same partitions. So it seems to be a new installer problem. Reproducible: Always -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=930341 Neil Rickert <nrickert@ameritech.net> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Flags|needinfo?(nrickert@ameritec | |h.net) | --- Comment #2 from Neil Rickert <nrickert@ameritech.net> --- Created attachment 633856 --> http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/attachment.cgi?id=633856&action=edit Yast logs for the install Attachment created with: tar zcf /tmp/YastLogs.tgz . while in the "/var/log/YaST2 subdirectory. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=930341 --- Comment #3 from Josef Reidinger <jreidinger@suse.com> --- To make it clear you want to have option to make partition active and install partition only to /boot sector? Well, I worry it won't work, you need to install bootloder to extended partition as usually code in MBR ( not sure about current status of windows, but old one do not recognize logic partitions ). About generic MBR I agree that if you manually uncheck it, it should keep unchecked, I have to check code there. Thanks for report -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=930341 --- Comment #4 from Neil Rickert <nrickert@ameritech.net> ---
To make it clear you want to have option to make partition active and install partition only to /boot sector?
No. I want the option to install only to "/boot" and to not touch the active flag, leaving the active flag where it was (on Windows). That option is there, and has worked in the past. But it was ignored for this install. I have been doing it this way since opensuse 11.4 (on the same computer). As for whether it works -- well it works for me, because I know what I am doing. In particular, I know that I then need to copy the boot sector to the file that Windows uses in its boot manager settings (essentially a chain-load). I could understand the installer warning me that the system might not be bootable (I have wondered why there isn't such a warning). But it still should follow what I configure for booting, and not change it to something different. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=930341 Josef Reidinger <jreidinger@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |CONFIRMED --- Comment #5 from Josef Reidinger <jreidinger@suse.com> --- Thanks, now it is clear where is problem. I will add it to our task list. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
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