https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=329152#c2 Stephan Kulow changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |coolo@novell.com --- Comment #2 from Stephan Kulow 2007-09-28 04:50:10 MST --- looks like your parition isn't activated -- 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=329152#c4 --- Comment #4 from Joe Harmon 2007-09-28 08:38:49 MST --- Created an attachment (id=175494) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=175494) requested menu.lst file -- 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=329152 Joe Harmon changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version|Beta 2 |Final -- 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=329152#c9 Olaf Dabrunz changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED --- Comment #9 from Olaf Dabrunz 2007-10-02 08:29:29 MST ---

From the logs in comment #5:

The installation detects that there is generic boot code in the MBR: ------------------------------------------------------------------ 2007-09-27 15:53:07 <1> linux(3651) [YCP] bootloader/routines/lilolike.ycp:223 MBR examining script returned $[ "exit":0, "stderr":"", "stdout":"Generic MBR\n" ] ------------------------------------------------------------------ So it decides not to rewrite the MBR, and installs GRUB's stage1 into the partition where "/boot" resides: ------------------------------------------------------------------ grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0,1) (hd0,1) Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,1)"... failed (this is not fatal) Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,1)"... failed (this is not fatal) Running "install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0,1) /boot/grub/stage2 p /boot/grub/menu.lst "... succeeded Done. grub> quit ------------------------------------------------------------------ This partition is also activated: ------------------------------------------------------------------ Partition: 2 /dev/sda2 20972857 8 2 262 2611 83 primary boot ------------------------------------------------------------------ So far this looks fine. Maybe the boot code in the MBR just looks valid but fails for some reason. Could you please attach a dump of the MBR: dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/MBR_dump count=1 -- 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=329152#c10 Joe Harmon changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |RESOLVED Info Provider|jharmon@novell.com | Resolution| |WORKSFORME --- Comment #10 from Joe Harmon 2007-10-02 11:28:14 MST --- Unfortunately I did a reinstall to try different settings and partition schemes to see if one of those caused the issue and since then I have not been able to reproduce the problem. So it looks like it was some type of weird issue with this particular machine. Sorry for the noise... Closing for now. -- 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.