[Bug 786016] New: Switching from grub2-efi to elilo does not create initrd - unbootable system
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=786016 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=786016#c0 Summary: Switching from grub2-efi to elilo does not create initrd - unbootable system Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.2 Version: Final Platform: Other OS/Version: openSUSE 12.2 Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: arvidjaar@gmail.com QAContact: jsrain@suse.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/16.0 I tested switch from grub2-efi to elilo on UEFI system. YaST2 created /EFI/SuSE directory with elilo, lilo.conf and vmlinuz. No initrd was copied there so result was system that could not boot. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. -- 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=786016 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=786016#c1 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |arvidjaar@gmail.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |yast2-maintainers@suse.de |ovo.novell.com | --- Comment #1 from Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.com> 2012-10-24 13:54:51 UTC --- Please attach the YaST log 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=786016 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=786016#c2 Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW InfoProvider|arvidjaar@gmail.com | --- Comment #2 from Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com> 2012-10-25 16:03:09 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=510908) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=510908) YaST2 logs switching from grub2-efi to elilo This is new clean installation. Install 12.2 with minimal text only packages accepting mostly defaults. "zypper patch" immediately after installation to make sure we are current. Reboot. Start yast, select elilo as bootloader, confirm elilo install, next, next, ... (accepting defaults everywhere). After finishing: linux-hoyg:~ # ll /boot/efi/EFI/SuSE/ total 5044 -rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 1251 Oct 25 19:55 elilo.conf -rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 238984 Jul 16 16:42 elilo.efi -rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 4919280 Oct 5 02:30 vmlinuz-3.4.11-2.16-desktop linux-hoyg:~ # linux-hoyg:~ # cat /boot/efi/EFI/SuSE/elilo.conf # This file has been transformed by /sbin/elilo. # Please do NOT edit here -- edit /etc/elilo.conf instead! # Otherwise your changes will be lost e.g. during kernel-update. # # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Thu Oct 25 19:55:24 MSK 2012 # THIS FILE WILL BE PARTIALLY OVERWRITTEN by perl-Bootloader # For the new kernel it try to figure out old parameters. In case we are not able to recognize it (e.g. change of flavor or strange install order ) it it use as fallback installation parameters from /etc/sysconfig/bootloader timeout = 80 ##YaST - boot_efilabel = "openSUSE 12.2" default = linux prompt image = vmlinuz-3.4.11-2.16-desktop ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### label = linux append = "resume=/dev/sda2 splash=silent quiet showopts " description = Linux initrd = initrd-3.4.11-2.16-desktop-kdump root = /dev/sda3 image = vmlinuz-3.4.11-2.16-desktop ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### label = failsafe append = "showopts apm=off noresume edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 nomodeset x11failsafe " description = Failsafe initrd = initrd-3.4.11-2.16-desktop-kdump root = /dev/sda3 linux-hoyg:~ # grep LOADER /etc/sysconfig/bootloader LOADER_TYPE="elilo" LOADER_LOCATION="" linux-hoyg:~ # efibootmgr -v BootCurrent: 0004 BootOrder: 0005,0004,0000,0001,0002,0003 Boot0000* EFI VMware Virtual SCSI Hard Drive (0.0) ACPI(a0341d0,0)PCI(10,0)SCSI(0,0) Boot0001* EFI VMware Virtual IDE CDROM Drive (IDE 1:0) ACPI(a0341d0,0)PCI(7,1)ATAPI(1,0,0) Boot0002* EFI Network ACPI(a0341d0,0)PCI(11,0)PCI(0,0)MAC(000c2987d918,0) Boot0003* EFI Internal Shell (Unsupported option) MM(b,2ee52000,2f255fff) Boot0004* opensuse HD(1,800,4e000,73a1f81d-552e-4ca2-b2f2-456c30ee0ae1)File(\EFI\opensuse\grubx64.efi) Boot0005* openSUSE 12.2 HD(1,800,4e000,73a1f81d-552e-4ca2-b2f2-456c30ee0ae1)File(\efi\SuSE\elilo.efi) -- 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=786016 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=786016#c Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|yast2-maintainers@suse.de |snwint@suse.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=786016 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=786016#c3 Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P5 - None |P3 - Medium Status|NEW |ASSIGNED --- Comment #3 from Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint@suse.com> 2012-11-02 13:59:39 CET --- I'm currently reworking boot setup for 12.3 and will check this. -- 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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