[Bug 468303] New: kernel update puts wrong boot partition into grub menu.lst
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468303 Summary: kernel update puts wrong boot partition into grub menu.lst Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.0 Version: Final Platform: i586 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.0 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Update Problems AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: vankan@kabelfoon.nl QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; nl; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080921 SUSE/2.0.0.17-0.1 Firefox/2.0.0.17 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 Since I installed 11.0 kernel updates always put root hd(0,0) into the appropriate item(s) in grub's menu.lst, despite the fact, that (hd1,0) contains the root file system and the kernel is correctly placed there. Old items are left undisturbed, but all new items are wrong. It is only a minor nuisance if you know what's happening, but to a newbie it could well be a show stopper, because the machine hangs with the message that the disk is unreadable. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. FYI I copy the layout of the hard disks Model: ATA ST380011A (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 80.0GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.3kB 4877MB 4877MB primary fat32 , , , , , , , , , type=0b, , 2 4878MB 31.5GB 26.6GB primary reiserfs boot, , , , , , , , , type=07, , 3 31.5GB 80.0GB 48.5GB extended , , , , , , lba, , , type=0f, , 5 31.5GB 32.5GB 1028MB logical linux-swap , , , , , , , , , type=82, , 6 32.5GB 80.0GB 47.5GB logical reiserfs , , , , , , , , , type=83, , Model: ExcelSto r Technology J81 (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 165GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.3kB 82.3GB 82.3GB primary ext3 , , , , , , , , , type=83, , 2 82.3GB 165GB 82.4GB primary ext3 , , , , , , , , , type=83, , -- 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=468303 Jos van Kan <vankan@kabelfoon.nl> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |vankan@kabelfoon.nl Summary|kernel update puts wrong |kernel update puts wrong |boot partition into grub |root partition into grub |menu.lst |menu.lst -- 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=468303 User jreidinger@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468303#c1 Josef Reidinger <jreidinger@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO CC| |jreidinger@novell.com Info Provider| |vankan@kabelfoon.nl AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |jreidinger@novell.com |ovo.novell.com | --- Comment #1 from Josef Reidinger <jreidinger@novell.com> 2009-01-22 05:12:19 MST --- It looks like perl - Bootloader problem. Please attach yast logs - http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs/YaST#I_reported_a_YaST2_bug.2C_and_now_I_am_aske... -- 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=468303 User vankan@kabelfoon.nl added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468303#c2 Jos van Kan <vankan@kabelfoon.nl> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|vankan@kabelfoon.nl | --- Comment #2 from Jos van Kan <vankan@kabelfoon.nl> 2009-01-22 15:32:33 MST --- Created an attachment (id=267046) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=267046) yast2 logfiles tarred and gzipped -- 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=468303 User jreidinger@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468303#c3 Josef Reidinger <jreidinger@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |vankan@kabelfoon.nl --- Comment #3 from Josef Reidinger <jreidinger@novell.com> 2009-01-26 01:44:10 MST --- Please can you describe what is boot entry Veilige modus -- openSUSE 11.0 and what disc is /dev/disk/by-id/usb-ExcelSto_r_Technology_J81_018E0E2E0198-0:0-part1 ? This looks like root of problems as in this place translating devices fail. It mark all suse section as it belongs to this partition but, perl-Bootloader cannot find which grub device belongs to that partition. -- 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=468303 User vankan@kabelfoon.nl added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468303#c4 Jos van Kan <vankan@kabelfoon.nl> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|vankan@kabelfoon.nl | --- Comment #4 from Jos van Kan <vankan@kabelfoon.nl> 2009-01-26 05:40:14 MST --- Veilige modus ==> Safe mode /dev/disk/by-id/usb-ExcelSto_r_Technology_J81_018E0E2E0198-0:0-part1 is /dev/sdb1 and it is correct, that it contains the Suse root file system. I use mounting by id because this is a usb external disk and I have more usb storage hardware. As a consequence the disk not always gets the same /dev/sd letter across version updates of the system. For the moment I will change the root file entry in fstab back to sdb1 and see if menu.lst is updated correctly in the next kernel update. I'll keep you posted. I think it is strange that the root file partition cannot be determined, because the kernel update takes place on a running system and a simple parse of the output of "df" could tell you that. Also a parse of the current menu.lst could tell you on what partition the current root file system resides. But maybe I'm way off base here. :-) Regards and thanks for your efforts. -- 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=468303 User vankan@kabelfoon.nl added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468303#c5 --- Comment #5 from Jos van Kan <vankan@kabelfoon.nl> 2009-01-26 06:14:22 MST --- A look at device.map (why didn't I think of that) showed another possible cause of the problem, since it defined (hd1) as /dev/sdc, where in fact it should be/dev/sdb. /dev/sdc was correct in the previous (10.2) installation. Is it possible to have a line like (hd1) /dev/disk/by-id/APPROPRIATE_DISK_ID in device.map in 11.0? That would cure the problem once and for all. Regards, -- 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=468303 User jreidinger@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468303#c6 Josef Reidinger <jreidinger@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |vankan@kabelfoon.nl --- Comment #6 from Josef Reidinger <jreidinger@novell.com> 2009-01-26 07:11:34 MST --- Yes, that I think should solve it, but I see in log also strange, that udev doesn't correctly point what device is /dev/disk/by-id/usb-ExcelSto_r_Technology_J81_018E0E2E0198-0:0-part1...could you try run udevinfo -q name -n /usb-ExcelSto_r_Technology_J81_018E0E2E0198-0:0-part1 and post output? -- 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=468303 User vankan@kabelfoon.nl added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468303#c7 Jos van Kan <vankan@kabelfoon.nl> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|vankan@kabelfoon.nl | --- Comment #7 from Jos van Kan <vankan@kabelfoon.nl> 2009-01-26 08:21:07 MST --- vankan@pavilion102:~> udevinfo -q name -n /dev/disk/by-id/usb-ExcelSto_r_Technology_J81_018E0E2E0198-0:0-part1 sdb1 So that looks OK. I don't know how far back that log goes, but under my previous installation (10.2) the disk used to be /dev/sdc. I upgraded three weeks ago or thereabouts. Regards, -- 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=468303 User jreidinger@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468303#c8 Josef Reidinger <jreidinger@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED --- Comment #8 from Josef Reidinger <jreidinger@novell.com> 2009-01-26 09:16:22 MST --- Yes, as you write in comment #5 bad device map is one of problems during install. Second is that during kernel update command output in comment #7 doesn't appear (doesn't find anything). Now is device map write almost everytime with udev devices. So it is fixed. But I don't know why call to udevinfo (in 11.1 is used udevadm info) fail, so I cannot help you, if you don't have any 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468303 User vankan@kabelfoon.nl added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468303#c9 --- Comment #9 from Jos van Kan <vankan@kabelfoon.nl> 2009-01-26 09:30:29 MST --- If it has been fixed in 11.1 let's give it a rest then, because there are two workarounds available in this case. Thank you once more for your efforts. -- 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=468303 User jreidinger@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468303#c10 Josef Reidinger <jreidinger@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED --- Comment #10 from Josef Reidinger <jreidinger@novell.com> 2009-01-26 09:46:25 MST --- OK, closed as fixed. If problem occur in 11.1 with installed maintenance update, please reopen 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.
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