https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=758570 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=758570#c1 --- Comment #1 from andreas bittner 2012-04-23 15:18:12 UTC --- I dug around a bit for chroot, and I came across the --bind stuff, so in the 12.1/x86 dvd, i booted rescue, then i first mounted mount /dev/sda5 /mnt (my /, first parititon in extended) then i mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev (at a later point mkinitrd complained with some perl bootloader module script or so could access or find /sys, so i did --bind for /sys as well mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys then mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/boot (my /boot) mount /dev/sda6 /mnt/var mount /dev/sda7 /mnt/opt than i did chroot /mnt then mount /proc according to some blog: http://nwrickert2.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/rescuing-susie/ anyways, so only with the additional --bind /sys did mkinitrd continue a bit further, but at the very end I am getting very familiar perl-bootloader .... grub grubdev2unixdev or similar errors... then my /dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_xxxxxxx...... harddiskpathname and an additional "with 2" after that.... five times this error line. always "with 2"... odd thing is, that the dev-disk-by-id-ata-samsung.... stuff doesnt contain the "-part1"... or "-partX" at the end at all. all these lines only have the main disk name without mentioning any partition. I already reported some serious bug about perlbootloader module and also with this grubdev2unixdev stuff some weeks back, but not much has happened, that bug hosed my whole system right from the start when i actually made the switch to opensuse 12.1 in the first place..... sigh :(((( what now? what on earth is wrong here. HALP! -- 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=758570 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=758570#c3 --- Comment #3 from andreas bittner 2012-04-23 15:35:54 UTC --- inside the chroot i could run yast2 bootloader and i deleted all entries there and made him propose new configuration. that one was defective as well, as it selected root=tmpfs for both standard and failsafe entries next to the floppy and the memtest. so i swichted to root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_____whatever-part5 .... here and now this darn system boots up again using the updated kernel 3.1.10 sigh...... this whole boot process, bootloader installation, boot dependability, updating kernel packages initrd, bootloader areas and whatever, needs to be made MUCH MUCH MUCH more robust and dependable. please suse folks and fellow participants. this is really a huge pain :((( thanks in advance. -- 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=758570 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=758570#c Jiri Slaby changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Component|Kernel |Basesystem AssignedTo|kernel-maintainers@forge.pr |bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |ovo.novell.com |ovo.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=758570 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=758570#c6 --- Comment #6 from andreas bittner 2012-04-25 12:02:27 UTC --- sorry I dont have a usable rescue system available right now, as I just found out in https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=759074 so I cannot check this 12.2/milestone3/x86-64 testing system at all any more what is wrong with it or provide logs from it what it did to the kernel/bootloader/grub parts that caused the mess. -- 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=758570 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=758570#c8 --- Comment #8 from andreas bittner 2012-04-25 17:41:13 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=488036) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=488036) whole /var/log/ directory from the 12.2/m3/x86-64 broken machine please dig through the /var/log content attached here as there might be or hopefully should be the hint what goes wrong with the kernel update packages recently. this is from 12.2/m3, but I started this bug originally on a normally working 12.1/x86, and the kernel update from earlier this week or end of last week killed my machine it probably the very same ways as this milestone3 machine here. they are/were both hanging at the "GRUB " stage..... although 12.2/m3 is GRUB2 and 12.1/x86 is older GRUB1 I guess..... ---- this machine is also hanging at "GRUB " and doing nothing any more after vanilly milestone3 installation and adding once the oss/nonoss/debug factory repositories and zypper ref zypper dup. kernel package amongst many others (1158 patches total I think) get installed, machine needs reboot. then never comes back alive again. hangs with "GRUB " and blinking cursor.... -- 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=758570 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=758570#c10 kk zhang changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |kkzhang@suse.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |nld10-bugs-qa@forge.provo.n |ovo.novell.com |ovell.com --- Comment #10 from kk zhang 2012-04-26 02:10:55 UTC --- HI,could you please help to have a look this?Feel free to reassign it.Thank you very much.;) -- 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=758570 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=758570#c12 Michael Chang changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |sboyce@blueyonder.co.uk --- Comment #12 from Michael Chang 2012-04-26 08:02:46 UTC --- *** Bug 759224 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=759224 -- 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=758570 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=758570#c13 --- Comment #13 from Sid Boyce 2012-04-26 11:28:30 UTC --- Michael, I updated bug 759224 with the following information showing how I recovered my system by going back to 12.2 Milestone 3. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I booted from a 12.2 Milestone 2 DVD into rescue, the Milestone 3 DVD fails rescue. I mounted /dev/sda1 as /mnt chroot /mnt grub2-install complained it couldn't find / (as I remember). Booted 12.2 Milestone 3 DVD and chose install --> upgrade, included factory repos. It's up and running as Milestone 3. It's backed off some of the changes, e.g gcc is now back at 4.6.3 whereas it was 4.7.0 previously. Awaiting your fix before doing zypper dup again. -- 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=758570 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=758570#c15 --- Comment #15 from Bernhard Wiedemann 2012-04-27 13:00:16 CEST --- This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration: This bug (758570) was mentioned in https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/115825 Factory / perl-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.