[Bug 457569] New: installation DVD overwrites file /boot/image, installed lilo cannot boot installed openSUSE 10.2

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9 Dec 2008 9 Dec '08

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457569 Summary: installation DVD overwrites file /boot/image, installed lilo cannot boot installed openSUSE 10.2 Product: openSUSE 11.0 Version: Final Platform: i686 OS/Version: openSUSE 10.2 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: zebu.ps@siemens.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: Community User After inserting and booting from (downloaded) openSUSE 11.0 DVD the installed openSUSE 10.2 cannot be booted because there is a new "image"-file in /boot and therefore lilo does not func. anymore. Install-DVD should not overwrite existings files until User had told to do so! -- 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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11 Dec 11 Dec

17:52

New subject: [Bug 457569] installation DVD overwrites file /boot/image, installed lilo cannot boot installed openSUSE 10.2

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457569 User chrubis@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457569#c1 Cyril Hrubis changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |zebu.ps@siemens.com --- Comment #1 from Cyril Hrubis 2008-12-11 10:52:11 MST --- Installation DVD is AFAIK not doing such things. Could you please describe exacts steps to reproduce this issue? -- 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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12 Dec 12 Dec

06:46

New subject: [Bug 457569] installation DVD overwrites file /boot/image, installed lilo cannot boot installed openSUSE 10.2

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457569 User zebu.ps@siemens.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457569#c2 Alexander Mittel changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|zebu.ps@siemens.com | --- Comment #2 from Alexander Mittel 2008-12-11 23:46:54 MST --- (In reply to comment #1, more detailed )

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After inserting and booting from (downloaded) openSUSE 11.0 DVD the installed openSUSE 10.2 cannot be booted because there is a new "image"-file in /boot and therefore lilo does not func. anymore. Install-DVD should not overwrite existings files until User had told to do so!

1) insert DVD 2) "reboot" 10.2 3) change BIOS to boot first from DVD 4) [reboots autom. again because of changed BIOS-settings] 5) DVD starts with new image-Screen (2 or 3 christmas penguins) 6) I did not change the selected menu-item so that the first item "boot from hd" was started automatically after default-timeout 7) [may be a black screen with 1 or 2 lines messages appears] 8) the new images-Screen was shown but only the static graphics, no moving penguins, no menu items 9) system is dead: no reaction on any key (arrows,return) or ctrl+alt+del 10) power off / on: booting until the new image-Screen, then like # 8) + 9) To repair I started an emergency-system from 10.2-CD and found that the file /boot/image was newer then /boot/map. Only a new install of lilo does not work (dead like above), I had to edit lilo.conf to comment out the line "image..." and then reinstall lilo again, then system boots with simpler text menu and runs. -- 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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08:22

New subject: [Bug 457569] installation DVD overwrites file /boot/image, installed lilo cannot boot installed openSUSE 10.2

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457569 User aorlovskyy@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457569#c3 Alexander Orlovskyy changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |aorlovskyy@novell.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com |snwint@novell.com --- Comment #3 from Alexander Orlovskyy 2008-12-12 01:22:55 MST --- Steffen, can you look at the 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.

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10:41

New subject: [Bug 457569] installation DVD overwrites file /boot/image, installed lilo cannot boot installed openSUSE 10.2

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457569 User snwint@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457569#c4 Steffen Winterfeldt changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |zebu.ps@siemens.com --- Comment #4 from Steffen Winterfeldt 2008-12-12 03:41:18 MST --- I'm fully lost at what you describe. I'm not aware we ever had a file /boot/image in any SuSE release. And the DVD 'boot from harddisk' option doesn't write anything to disk. So, what you describe above, basically, is that after selecting the 'boot from hd' option on the 11.0 DVD, your system gets unbootable? That's no the Live-DVD, btw? -- 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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11:50

New subject: [Bug 457569] installation DVD overwrites file /boot/image, installed lilo cannot boot installed openSUSE 10.2

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457569 User zebu.ps@siemens.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457569#c5 Alexander Mittel changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|zebu.ps@siemens.com | --- Comment #5 from Alexander Mittel 2008-12-12 04:50:17 MST --- (In reply to comment #4 from Steffen Winterfeldt)

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I'm fully lost at what you describe. I'm not aware we ever had a file /boot/image in any SuSE release. And the DVD 'boot from harddisk' option doesn't write anything to disk.

So, what you describe above, basically, is that after selecting the 'boot from hd' option on the 11.0 DVD, your system gets unbootable?

That's no the Live-DVD, btw?

no, not Live-DVD, download openSUSE-11.0-DVD-i386.iso + burn I did not press any key after booting from DVD so the first menu item 'boot from hd' was selected by default and started autom. after default timeout and at this moment (or right after it) the wrong image-file was on hd and so lilo could not handle this. (lilo was installed many weeks before with another image-file and cannot work with a new one without re-install). (Could it be that the 11.0 not care about lilo or grub [I believe that grub has no problems with new image-files]?) -- 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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12:10

New subject: [Bug 457569] installation DVD overwrites file /boot/image, installed lilo cannot boot installed openSUSE 10.2

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457569 User snwint@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457569#c6 Steffen Winterfeldt changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |zebu.ps@siemens.com --- Comment #6 from Steffen Winterfeldt 2008-12-12 05:10:57 MST --- Do you have more than one harddisk? -- 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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13 Dec 13 Dec

09:35

New subject: [Bug 457569] installation DVD overwrites file /boot/image, installed lilo cannot boot installed openSUSE 10.2

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457569 User zebu.ps@siemens.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457569#c7 Alexander Mittel changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|zebu.ps@siemens.com | --- Comment #7 from Alexander Mittel 2008-12-13 02:35:10 MST --- (In reply to comment #6 from Steffen Winterfeldt)

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Do you have more than one harddisk?

++++++ ++++++ ++++++ ++++++ ++++++ First I have to apologize about my confusion (must come from my angry about the extra work for me to repair the system). There is of course no file with name "image", the name ist "message"! I must be confused about the file contains pictures/graphics - which are images too. The bug has nothing to do with the common use of image as kernel-image, but with the image-content of the "message"-file. The modified line in /etc/lilo.conf is (of course) "message=/boot/message". (The entry ++++++ ++++++ ++++++ ++++++ ++++++ # boot = /dev/sda vga = normal read-only menu-scheme = Wg:kw:Wg:Wg lba32 prompt timeout = 80 # optional # message = /boot/message image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-0.10-default label = LinuxV2 append = " resume=/dev/sdb2 splash=silent showopts" initrd = /boot/initrd-2.6.18.8-0.10-default root = /dev/sdb1 #image = /linux7/boot/vmlinuz # label = Linux7_2 # root = /dev/sda1 # initrd = /linux7/boot/initrd # append = " scsihosts=sym53c8xx:aic7xxx " ++++++ ++++++ ++++++ ++++++ ++++++ The master boot record is on another hd then the kernel (lilo is also telling this when install with /sbin/lilo), but this no problem. ** SORRY, SORRY ** +++++++ Yes, there are 2 scsi-hardisks. Currently used for openSUSE 10.2 is the second /dev/sdb, the first /dev/sda was used for SuSE 7.x This is "df -k" while running 10.2: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb1 32900044 7463016 25437028 23% / udev 63164 104 63060 1% /dev /dev/sdb3 37727484 32840 37694644 1% /part3 /dev/sda1 4128128 1737492 2180872 45% /linux7 /dev/sda4 2330172 2080792 131008 95% /htdocs /dev/sdb1 is the current 10.2 /dev/sdb2 swap /dev/sdb3 is empty /dev/sda1 is the current 10.2 /dev/sda2 swap /dev/sda3 raw for database /dev/sda4 data -- 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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9 Jan 9 Jan

15:32

New subject: [Bug 457569] installation DVD overwrites file /boot/image, installed lilo cannot boot installed openSUSE 10.2

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457569 User snwint@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457569#c8 Steffen Winterfeldt changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |INVALID --- Comment #8 from Steffen Winterfeldt 2009-01-09 08:32:16 MST --- Hm, ok. I'm not sure what's going on. First, 'boot from hard disk' does not in no way and never ever write to your disk. There simply isn't code for it anywhere. What might come into play and that's why I asked if you have more than one disk is that 'boot from disk' may in some cases boot another disk than your BIOS normally would. Maybe there's some old bootloader stuff that got activated that way that messed with your config. Sorry, I don't see a bug on our side 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.

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12 Jan 12 Jan

13:24

New subject: [Bug 457569] installation DVD overwrites file /boot/image, installed lilo cannot boot installed openSUSE 10.2

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457569 User aorlovskyy@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457569#c9 Alexander Orlovskyy changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |CLOSED --- Comment #9 from Alexander Orlovskyy 2009-01-12 06:24:45 MST --- Closing 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.

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