https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=779534 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=779534#c Philipp Thomas changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |pth@suse.com Component|Bootloader |Bootloader Version|Final |Factory AssignedTo|mchang@suse.com |jsrain@suse.com Product|openSUSE 12.2 |openSUSE 12.3 Target Milestone|--- |Factory -- 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=779534 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=779534#c2 --- Comment #2 from Alin M Elena 2012-09-11 08:47:56 UTC --- yap... that was the problem... thanks problem solved... Alin -- 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=779534 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=779534#c4 Michael Chang changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED --- Comment #4 from Michael Chang 2012-09-17 07:43:50 UTC --- Hi Alin, I close this one and please let me know you have problem on this. 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.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=779534 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=779534#c6 Michael Chang changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |ASSIGNED --- Comment #6 from Michael Chang 2012-12-25 03:11:36 UTC --- Hi Eric, Do you have more than one hard drive installed? 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.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=779534 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=779534#c8 --- Comment #8 from Erik Sorenson 2012-12-25 13:47:09 UTC --- No. Nor were any USB devices (other than a scanner) attached at install time. I have attached two files from /varlog/YaST2, from the first install of M2 from the desktop of the live x86 KDE CD. -- 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=779534 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=779534#c10 --- Comment #10 from Michael Chang 2012-12-27 04:15:20 UTC --- Erik, My guts feeling is that this has things to do with the device.map as per you comment your installation succeeded by using os device name /dev/sda5 (instead of legacy grub device name, say (hd0,5)) However I couldn't find any possible reason it could fail. :( Could you please help to get the output of grub2-bios-setup at the point this error happens, switch to text console [1] and run $ /usr/sbin/grub2-install --force --debug --skip-fs-probe "(hd0,5)" > /var/log/YaST2/grub2-install-force-skip-fs-probe.log 2>&1 And attach grub2-install-force-skip-fs-probe.log in this log .. [1] http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:YaST_tricks#Invoking_terminal_from_YaST Ps. I'm planning to remove device.map as grub device is not essentially required by grub2's config or utilities to work. I see no good reason for it's presence. (In old days, YaST has to figure out the grub(bios) device and os device mapping and grub manipulates on grub device names only (which maps to certain os device). Now with grub2, as long as it accepts os device names (among others like by-id and so on) this mapping could be obsoleted). The only concern to me is that it must not break the upgrading path of running setup which using grub device names .. 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.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=779534 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=779534#c12 --- Comment #12 from Michael Chang 2012-12-28 03:41:22 UTC --- (In reply to comment #11)

bash: /usr/bin/grub2-install: No such file or directory

Is it typo? It is "sbin" not "bin". :) Just downloaded 12.3 M2 DVD, will try to reproduce on my side .. -- 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=779534 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=779534#c14 --- Comment #14 from Erik Sorenson 2012-12-28 13:43:59 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=518483) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=518483) Output Requested Sorry, the "/usr/bin" was my error. A few minutes ago I re-did the Minimal-X install again, hit the error in the same place, and then issued the correct command in a terminal. Output attached, but it's a one line similar to the other. I have been using Suse/openSuse since v7 or so, and as my "production" daily machine since v9. This is the first time I have hit this problem. Even 12.3M1, which I installed from an x86 DVD, was flawless. See #8 (mine) forum comments here: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/pre-release-beta/... When you say you tried it, got no error, but it didn't boot properly on the reboot, is this just because you specified suing the PBR like I did? I have never had that but, then again, I'm using OSL2000 as a bootloader, so it automatically re-scans the partitions on boot and offers the new one as a choice to boot from. -- 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=779534 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=779534#c17 --- Comment #17 from Michael Chang 2013-01-03 07:15:33 UTC --- (In reply to comment #16)

Maybe my mistake .. will verify the correct command you have to type in terminal tomorrow ..

Ok. I forgot the command is on installed system, so you have to chroot to it before issuing commnads. $ chroot /mnt $ /usr/sbin/grub2-install --force --debug --skip-fs-probe "(hd0,5)" > /var/log/YaST2/grub2-install-force-skip-fs-probe.log 2>&1 Btw, I recheck your log again, seems everything's fine there. It could be bugs withing grub2 utilities rather than perl|yast2 bootloader. -- 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=779534 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=779534#c19 Michael Chang changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |arvidjaar@gmail.com --- Comment #19 from Michael Chang 2013-01-04 10:37:11 UTC --- Did I see ghost? The log reveals something that we are familiar with and should get fixed .. ++ echo /dev/sda5 ++ xargs /usr/sbin/grub2-probe --device-map=/boot/grub2/device.map --target=drive --device + grub_drive='(hd0,msdos6)' ++ echo '(hd0,msdos6)' ++ sed -e 's/^(\(\([^,\\]\|\\\\\|\\,\)*\)\(\(,[a-zA-Z0-9]*\)*\))$/\3/' + grub_partition=,msdos6 /dev/sda5 should be grub device (hd0,msdos5). The (hd0,msdos6) is nonsensical as that is your Windows NTFS partition. A much like reincarnation of bnc#785341, although the symptom differs as now /dev/sda5 (first logical partition) is wrongly translated .. (In that bug the wrong translation started from second logical partition (/dev/sda6)) And this is a *regression* from M1 to M2, made me feel more odd as it looks not likely a regression but a bug which should be in both M1 & M2 (If it is). CC Andrey, as he help to address above issue and fix it. See if he has any idea. 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.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=779534 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=779534#c21 Erik Sorenson changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment #518242|0 |1 is obsolete| | Attachment #518483|0 |1 is obsolete| | --- Comment #21 from Erik Sorenson 2013-01-04 15:06:24 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=518923) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=518923) 512-byte first sector of hda This was done from hda1, my production 12.2_x86 partition. HDA5 is where the target install went to and it's PBR is empty: s122k3prod:~ # fdisk -l omitting empty partition (5) Partition 5 is deleted Disk /dev/sda: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total 3907029168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xf9a92f01 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 43010047 21504000 83 Linux /dev/sda2 43010048 190466047 73728000 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda3 190466048 232450047 20992000 83 Linux /dev/sda4 232450048 3907028991 1837289472 5 Extended /dev/sda5 232452096 293892095 30720000 83 Linux /dev/sda6 293894144 3804628991 1755367424 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda7 3804631040 3822653439 9011200 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda8 3822655488 3863615487 20480000 83 Linux s122k3prod:~ # dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/sda.mbr count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 512 bytes (512 B) copied, 4.7696e-05 s, 10.7 MB/s s122k3prod:~ # -- 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=779534 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=779534#c23 --- Comment #23 from Erik Sorenson 2013-01-05 20:36:43 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=519062) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=519062) embr.mbr as per request embr appended, as per request. Done from my sda1 production 12.2 -- 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=779534 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=779534#c Andrey Borzenkov changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |sorenson2743@amtelecom.net -- 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=779534 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=779534#c26 --- Comment #26 from Andrey Borzenkov 2013-01-06 14:50:56 UTC --- (In reply to comment #25)

Did this, after loop in script apparent (bash buffer too small): It loops :(

Do you have 32 bit system? -- 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=779534 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=779534#c28 Andrey Borzenkov changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment #519063|0 |1 is obsolete| | --- Comment #28 from Andrey Borzenkov 2013-01-06 17:20:55 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=519075) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=519075) Script to dump chain of extended partitions (In reply to comment #27)

My production partition, from which I ran your script, is 32-bit

OK, I modified script to avoid exceedingly large offsets (that probably caused overflow). Could you try once more? Thank you! -- 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=779534 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=779534#c30 --- Comment #30 from Andrey Borzenkov 2013-01-06 18:50:10 UTC --- (In reply to comment #29)

walk2.txt output from #28 script.

OK, could you please test updated GRUB2 (this is repo for 12.2): zypper ar obs://home:arvidjaar:bnc:779534/openSUSE_12.2_Update bnc779534 zypper refresh bnc779534 zypper dup -r bnc779534 It at least did not break partition enumeration here :) -- 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=779534 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=779534#c31 Erik Sorenson changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |ASSIGNED InfoProvider|sorenson2743@amtelecom.net | --- Comment #31 from Erik Sorenson 2013-01-06 20:36:39 UTC --- Andrey, it's not clear what you want me to do after I add the new rep and update grub2. I have done the update to my production 12.2 system without problem. I even ran your script and got the same results which is not surprising since I don't think it uses any grub2 functions. So, the question is, what now? If it is meant to be applied to the M2 test partition, that's slightly problematic, since it doesn't have a loader, which I can quickly fix and boot into the minimal-X install for firstboot routine. But then what? I was always able to work around the bug by rebooting after the error message and using a live DVD to issue in a super-terminal: 1. mount /dev/sda5 /mnt 2. grub2-install --force --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda5 Which worked. So how will I be able to test if the revised grub2 from the new repo is solving the install's bootloader problem? --- Comment #32 from Erik Sorenson 2013-01-06 20:43:13 UTC --- Andrey, it's not clear what you want me to do after I add the new rep and update grub2. I have done the update to my production 12.2 system without problem. I even ran your script and got the same results which is not surprising since I don't think it uses any grub2 functions. So, the question is, what now? If it is meant to be applied to the M2 test partition, that's slightly problematic, since it doesn't have a loader, which I can quickly fix and boot into the minimal-X install for firstboot routine. But then what? I was always able to work around the bug by rebooting after the error message and using a live DVD to issue in a super-terminal: 1. mount /dev/sda5 /mnt 2. grub2-install --force --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda5 Which worked. So how will I be able to test if the revised grub2 from the new repo is solving the install's bootloader 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.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=779534 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=779534#c34 --- Comment #34 from Michael Chang 2013-01-07 06:19:57 UTC --- (In reply to comment #24) Andrey, Well done. It's quite impressive the problem could get sorted out so fast. :)

That does not really explain the the problem in this bug report. Yes, grub2 will count partitions differently, but it will do it consistently everywhere, so as long as you use only grub2 tools to create configuration it will work.

No anymore consistent in the case of device.map .. as now YaST (or any other system tools relies on running kernel to figure our partition number) counts differently with grub2. (hd0,5) is supposed to be /dev/sda5. And it's unfortunately be mapped to that omitted empty partition (of type extended). In function grub_partition_map_probe (), and within it's iteration hook, the partnum 5 is never matched as it's the omitted partition (number 5) which falls into the a wrong if condition check that you fixed in your updated grub2 package. That said I agree with your fix is an adequate solution for this problem (Although we don't have it's test result so far, but I'm quite optimistic). :) 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.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=779534 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=779534#c36 --- Comment #36 from Michael Chang 2013-01-07 09:56:19 UTC --- (In reply to comment #35)

Ok. Give me some time. I'll try to make a dud for test and verification on M2.

Darn! More fun with this. Linuxrc crashed when specify to use driver update disk on 12.3 M2. I'll report another bug with the log for it. :( -- 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=779534 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=779534#c38 --- Comment #38 from Andrey Borzenkov 2013-01-07 14:02:51 UTC --- (In reply to comment #37)

Re: #33, quote "I expect it to return hd0,msdos6" and "I expect it to return hd0,msdos5".

OK. @mchang: I submitted SR#147406 Factory. Should I submit maintenance request for 12.2?

The two tests performed exactly as expected. Can we consider this fixed/closed?

I'm still not convinced this was the reason for the problem you had. I would wait until patch is included in Factory and test installation once more. -- 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=779534 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=779534#c40 --- Comment #40 from Erik Sorenson 2013-01-08 03:27:38 UTC --- Yes, I will do so. Thanks very much to both of you for your assisance and 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=779534 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=779534#c42 --- Comment #42 from Bernhard Wiedemann 2013-01-08 08:00:10 CET --- This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration: This bug (779534) was mentioned in https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/147481 Maintenance / -- 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=779534 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=779534#c44 --- Comment #44 from Erik Sorenson 2013-01-18 06:12:31 UTC --- Ref #39. Just a confirmation that this is really closed. I just d/l the 12.3 Beta 1 x86 DVD and did my usual type of new install into the same partition on the same drive (sda5). This time the bootloader routine did *not* barf out, and everything installed properly, and I was able to boot into the new install without having to do a work-around. As for 12.2, it has always installed the bootloader properly, so no change there for the two installs of it I have done in the past week. Again, many thanks to both of you for your assistance and resoluton of 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.