https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678671 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678671#c0 Summary: upgrade from 11.3 (previously came via 11.1, 11.2 and 11.3) to 11.4 fails booting second time, /dev/sda3 in menu.lst instead of /dev/disk/by-id/.... (old menu.lst from 11.3 and 11.2 still show proper lines) Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.4 Version: Final Platform: i686 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Bootloader AssignedTo: jsrain@novell.com ReportedBy: abittner@stud.fh-heilbronn.de QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0E) i just recently upgraded some older 11.1 box to first 11.2 and 11.3 during the recent days (all via downloaded x86 32bit iso dvd images). up to 11.3 everything was working pretty much normally. during the 11.4 upgrade (download dvd iso image) it rebooted the upgraded system via kexec. it already complained there that some /dev/sda3 wasnt appearing or such and it was waiting and it asked me y/n if i wanted to use /dev/disk/by-id/... instead or so (still during early booting during that kexec method). i selected yes there and it continued to boot. so the very first time 11.4 came up, i had network access, proper runlevel 3 and i also checked yast2 onlineupdate already and checked some repos. so then, i tried to do a proper real reboot of the machine. it failed to come up that time, although it gave me the very same errors about dev/disk/by-id and/or /dev/sda3 missing and stuff. i also answered yes at that moment but it never came up properly, it seemed to be failing at accessing the disk properly, it entered runlevel 3 and did some apparmor, acpid and dbus stuff or so the messages displayed but everything hanged there and never finished. i was still able to ctrl+alt+del and it gave me all weird messages about overflow in parameters in /etc/.... some script or such weird errors. ctrl+alt+del didnt really help that much but the atx+powerbutton helped to shutdown the system. i tried this several times. always the very same problem. i first thought about some apparmor trouble or so. so i booted into rescue system via the 11.4 iso image and mounted my /mnt/boot and /mnt/ there i found the menu.lst newly created/modified by 11.4 and it was all wrong in comparison to 11.3 ------------ Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: here is the menu.lst.old -- # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Thu Mar 10 19:46:20 CET 2011 # THIS FILE WILL BE PARTIALLY OVERWRITTEN by perl-Bootloader # Configure custom boot parameters for updated kernels in /etc/sysconfig/bootloader default 0 timeout 8 gfxmenu (hd0,1)/message ##YaST - activate ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title Desktop -- openSUSE 11.3 - 2.6.34-12 root (hd0,1) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.34-12-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_HD403LJ_S0NFJ1BP400648-part3 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_HD403LJ_S0NFJ1BP400648-part1 splash=silent showopts vga=0x317 initrd /initrd-2.6.34-12-desktop ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title Desktop -- openSUSE 11.2 - 2.6.31.14-0.6 root (hd0,1) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.14-0.6-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_HD403LJ_S0NFJ1BP400648-part3 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_HD403LJ_S0NFJ1BP400648-part1 splash=silent showopts vga=0x317 initrd /initrd-2.6.31.14-0.6-desktop ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Failsafe -- openSUSE 11.2 - 2.6.31.14-0.6 root (hd0,1) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.14-0.6-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_HD403LJ_S0NFJ1BP400648-part3 showopts ide=nodma apm=off noresume nosmp maxcpus=0 edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 x11failsafe vga=0x317 initrd /initrd-2.6.31.14-0.6-desktop ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy### title Floppy rootnoverify (fd0) chainloader +1 ------------ as you can see there are some leftovers in strings still from the 11.2 system and the normal 11.3 entries. both 11.2 and 11.3 worked and booted fine. as i said before the system was coming from 11.1 and earlier and it was back then still using /dev/sdaX and that easy notation, and the 11.2 upgrade process first asked me to go for dev/disk/by-id or label method or the like. so i edited the fstab back then (some days ago, as it was still on 11.1 then), and changed the mountpoints to dev/disk/by-id/ at that time. bot upgrades to 11.2 and 11.3 went just fine. the problems all started when i went to 11.4 in the last step today. fstab.old: /dev/hda3 / reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/hda2 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda1 swap swap pri=42 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0 ------------ fstab with dev/disk/by-id: -------------------------- /dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_HD403LJ_S0NFJ1BP400648-part3 / reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_HD403LJ_S0NFJ1BP400648-part2 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_HD403LJ_S0NFJ1BP400648-part1 swap swap pri=42 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 ------------- it would be great if the suse folks would take steps to ensure that an upgrade process is tested thoroughly before releases get tagged final. this is clearly a showstopper to me, and painstaking to find out whats happening exactly. thanks and 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.