[Bug 449928] New: Grub showed two Windows entry
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449928 Summary: Grub showed two Windows entry Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Beta 5 Platform: 32bit OS/Version: SuSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Bootloader AssignedTo: jsrain@novell.com ReportedBy: matti.kukkola@gmail.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: Beta-Customer Created an attachment (id=256397) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=256397) menu.lst Hello, I'm using Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo J with AMD processor. I have installed 32 bit openSUSE with KDE. The second OS on my computer is Win XP Home. I have two partitions on it, but only one Windows. I have installed many programs to D: allthought root is C:. When I installed openSUSE I got two Windows entry on grub, Windows 1 and Windows 2. Windows 2 isn't working. Regards Matti -- 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=449928 User jsrain@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449928#c1 Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |matti.kukkola@gmail.com --- Comment #1 from Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> 2008-11-28 06:16:52 MST --- Attach the logs from the installation, please, otherwise we cannot find why the other windows partition was added to the menu. See http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs/YaST for details. -- 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=449928 User matti.kukkola@gmail.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449928#c2 --- Comment #2 from Matti Kukkola <matti.kukkola@gmail.com> 2008-11-28 07:29:01 MST --- Created an attachment (id=256598) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=256598) hwinfo -- 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=449928 User matti.kukkola@gmail.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449928#c3 --- Comment #3 from Matti Kukkola <matti.kukkola@gmail.com> 2008-11-28 07:29:57 MST --- Created an attachment (id=256600) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=256600) YaST2 logs -- 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=449928 User matti.kukkola@gmail.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449928#c4 Matti Kukkola <matti.kukkola@gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |ASSIGNED Info Provider|matti.kukkola@gmail.com | --- Comment #4 from Matti Kukkola <matti.kukkola@gmail.com> 2008-11-28 07:31:48 MST --- Hello Jiri, Please say if you need more info. It's not difficult to me remove Windows 2-entry, but I think beginners and customers. regards Matti -- 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=449928 User jsrain@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449928#c5 Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|jsrain@novell.com |aschnell@novell.com Status|ASSIGNED |NEW --- Comment #5 from Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> 2008-11-28 08:10:13 MST --- 2008-11-25 19:40:04 <1> linux(3676) [YCP] Storage.ycp:4448 GetPrimPartitions ret [$["device":"/dev/sda1", "string":"windows 1"], $["device":"/dev/sda2", "string":"windows 2"]] 2008-11-25 19:40:04 <1> linux(3676) [YCP] Storage.ycp:4568 ret=["/dev/sda1 windows 1", "/dev/sda2 windows 2"] Is there any chance that there used to be Windows installed on /dev/sda2? -- 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=449928 Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |matti.kukkola@gmail.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=449928 User matti.kukkola@gmail.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449928#c6 Matti Kukkola <matti.kukkola@gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |ASSIGNED Info Provider|matti.kukkola@gmail.com | --- Comment #6 from Matti Kukkola <matti.kukkola@gmail.com> 2008-11-28 09:22:15 MST --- I have installed many programs to D:\Program Files. But I have only 10 Gt c:(hda0,0) partition what is Windows XP root( there is c:\Windows ) and about 170 GB d:-partition(hda0,1) what is used for Program Files. I haven't moved home-folders to D:. I used Fujitsu Siemens recovery CD to restore Win XP and I selected 10 GB Windows-partition(C:) and bigger D:partition. After this I installed SUSE by resizing D:-partition. So I did ext3-partition and swap. Regards Matti -- 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=449928 Arvin Schnell <aschnell@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment #256600|text/plain |application/x-gzip mime type| | -- 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=449928 User aschnell@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449928#c7 Arvin Schnell <aschnell@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |matti.kukkola@gmail.com --- Comment #7 from Arvin Schnell <aschnell@novell.com> 2008-11-28 09:41:57 MST --- I suppose each of sda1 and sda2 contain at least one of these files: "boot.ini", "msdos.sys", "io.sys", "config.sys", "MSDOS.SYS", "IO.SYS", "bootmgr", "$Boot" Please check (under Linux not Windows). -- 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=449928 User matti.kukkola@gmail.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449928#c8 --- Comment #8 from Matti Kukkola <matti.kukkola@gmail.com> 2008-11-28 12:30:45 MST --- Created an attachment (id=256686) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=256686) ls -lsa in root of /dev/sda2 Sorry, I have to be on command line because of other bugs. I don't know search terms for finding these files. Anyway these files are not in root or first level of the sub folders. This is root list -- 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=449928 Matti Kukkola <matti.kukkola@gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |ASSIGNED Info Provider|matti.kukkola@gmail.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=449928 User aschnell@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449928#c9 Arvin Schnell <aschnell@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P5 - None |P3 - Medium --- Comment #9 from Arvin Schnell <aschnell@novell.com> 2008-11-28 13:23:04 MST --- It is correct to look only in the first level. Right now I cannot figure out why sda2 was detected as windows system. -- 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=449928 User aschnell@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449928#c10 Arvin Schnell <aschnell@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |matti.kukkola@gmail.com --- Comment #10 from Arvin Schnell <aschnell@novell.com> 2008-12-01 03:31:57 MST --- I have added some debug output which should be included in RC2. If possible please test again (you don't have to make a complete installation - just up to the point where you can check the boot config) and provide YaST logs. -- 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=449928 User matti.kukkola@gmail.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449928#c11 --- Comment #11 from Matti Kukkola <matti.kukkola@gmail.com> 2008-12-01 03:41:46 MST --- Yes, of course. If I have to use Live CD, I cannot get it working because of wrong refresh rate. If I can use straight installation I don't need to run live cd desktop. Is this possible or do I have to run some command line installation system? Regards Matti -- 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=449928 User aschnell@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449928#c12 --- Comment #12 from Arvin Schnell <aschnell@novell.com> 2008-12-01 03:49:52 MST --- Live CD or normal should make no difference for the test. -- 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=449928 User aschnell@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449928#c13 Arvin Schnell <aschnell@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |RESOLVED Info Provider|matti.kukkola@gmail.com | Resolution| |NORESPONSE --- Comment #13 from Arvin Schnell <aschnell@novell.com> 2009-01-03 11:33:26 MST --- Closing after receiving no response within four weeks. Feel free to reopen when requested information is provided. -- 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=449928 User matti.kukkola@gmail.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449928#c14 --- Comment #14 from Matti Kukkola <matti.kukkola@gmail.com> 2009-01-03 11:55:39 MST --- Sorry Arvin, I installed Windows again with 1 partition. So I cannot test it any more. I think it's not very universal that you install Linux after you have used recovery disk, because it removes Linux-partition. Regards Matti -- 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=449928 User schaefer.frank@gmx.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449928#c15 Frank Schäfer <schaefer.frank@gmx.net> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED CC| |schaefer.frank@gmx.net Resolution|NORESPONSE | --- Comment #15 from Frank Schäfer <schaefer.frank@gmx.net> 2009-01-11 06:48:47 MST --- I can confirm this bug, with an important extension: YaST doesn't only create two entries for Windows, it also renames an existing (and working) Windows-entry. I have two primary NTFS-partitions: sda1: C: System sda2: D: Data sda2 has never been used as system partition and it definitely doesn't contain any of the above mentioned files. What YaST does is: Existing: "Windows XP" (/dev/sda1) => renamed to "windows1" New: "windows2" (/dev/sda2) The strange thing is, that BOTH entires are working. However, YaST should never touch/rename any existing GRUB-entries for non-Linux OSes/partitions. I already noticed this behavior when I was upgrading from 10.3 to 11.0. It doesn't make a difference, if you make an update or a clean installation. -- 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=449928 User aschnell@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449928#c16 Arvin Schnell <aschnell@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |RESOLVED Resolution| |NORESPONSE --- Comment #16 from Arvin Schnell <aschnell@novell.com> 2009-01-11 11:22:31 MST --- As already mentioned I need YaST logs for debugging. -- 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=449928 User schaefer.frank@gmx.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449928#c17 Frank Schäfer <schaefer.frank@gmx.net> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|NORESPONSE | --- Comment #17 from Frank Schäfer <schaefer.frank@gmx.net> 2009-01-11 12:17:08 MST --- Damn, I simply forgot to attach them, sorry ! If you need further informations, just tell me. -- 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=449928 User schaefer.frank@gmx.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449928#c18 --- Comment #18 from Frank Schäfer <schaefer.frank@gmx.net> 2009-01-11 12:20:42 MST --- Created an attachment (id=264364) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=264364) YaST-logs -- 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=449928 User aschnell@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449928#c19 Arvin Schnell <aschnell@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |aschnell@novell.com AssignedTo|aschnell@novell.com |juhliarik@novell.com --- Comment #19 from Arvin Schnell <aschnell@novell.com> 2009-01-11 13:03:22 MST --- According to the logs sda1 contains "boot.ini" and sda2 contains "$Boot". So they look like Windows partitions. Renaming grub entries during update is another issue for bootloader maintainer. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449928 User schaefer.frank@gmx.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449928#c20 --- Comment #20 from Frank Schäfer <schaefer.frank@gmx.net> 2009-01-12 08:35:56 MST --- If "$Boot" is supposed to be a file or directory: it does definitely not exist on this partition. I checked with "ls -l -a", Konqueror and under Windows (Explorer) (of course also the hidden files ;-) ). If I can do something more, just tell me. -- 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=449928 User juhliarik@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449928#c21 Jozef Uhliarik <juhliarik@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |RESOLVED Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #21 from Jozef Uhliarik <juhliarik@novell.com> 2009-01-13 08:10:44 MST --- Frank: your problem with names described in comment #15 is out of topic. It is not good idea mix several bugs to one. Please create new bugreport for it. BTW. there will be new concept (openSUSE 11.2) of handling bootloader entries and one of the point is define which boot entries will be handled only with user without touching by YaST. Arvin: I found in yast2-bootloader that there is called Storage::GetForeignPrimary() and output is little bit filtered. The result (partitions) is added to menu.lst like chainloader and names are created from your output of calling Storage::GetForeignPrimary(). [windows or windows 1/2 etc.] I am not able to determine if partition is valid windows partition with installed windows :( and I am not sure if you can do it in yast2-storage but I close the bug like wantfix. If you have any idea how to solve the problem please let me know or create fate request but for now it is wantfix. -- 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=449928 User schaefer.frank@gmx.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449928#c22 --- Comment #22 from Frank Schäfer <schaefer.frank@gmx.net> 2009-01-14 05:20:19 MST --- (In reply to comment #21)
Frank: your problem with names described in comment #15 is out of topic. It is not good idea mix several bugs to one. Please create new bugreport for it.
Ok, I'll create a separate bug-report.
I am not able to determine if partition is valid windows partition with installed windows :( and I am not sure if you can do it in yast2-storage but I close the bug like wantfix. If you have any idea how to solve the problem please let me know or create fate request but for now it is wantfix.
I know it's a very difficult task to determine if a partition contains a valid Windows-installation. But I think current strategy isn't that bad. I'm using SUSE for a long time now and I never had severe problems (this one is really not critical). Concerning my issue: if $Boot is a file or directory which is detected but not there, it is not a strategy problem. Another thought: What about the existence of the "windows"-directory, does current strategy search for it ? Of course, if it is there, it's still not sure that we have a valid Windows-installation on this partition. But coming from the other other direction: if the partition contains a valid Windows-installation, there must be a windows-directory, right ? Just my two cents... -- 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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