[Bug 450268] New: HD detected inverted and grub installed into the wrong MBR. machine do not boot.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450268 Summary: HD detected inverted and grub installed into the wrong MBR. machine do not boot. Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: RC 1 Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Blocker Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: andrea@opensuse.org QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- fdisk -l in suse 11.1 linux-susz:/home/anubis # fdisk -l Disco /dev/sda: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 byte 255 testine, 63 settori/tracce, 12161 cilindri Unità = cilindri di 16065 * 512 = 8225280 byte Identificativo disco: 0x000bb8cf Dispositivo Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 12161 97683201 83 Linux Disco /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 byte 255 testine, 63 settori/tracce, 30401 cilindri Unità = cilindri di 16065 * 512 = 8225280 byte Identificativo disco: 0x00097ba0 Dispositivo Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 21828 175333378+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sdb2 * 21829 30401 68862622+ 5 Esteso /dev/sdb5 21829 21958 1044193+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sdb6 21959 30401 67818366 83 Linux fdisk -l in suse 11.0 and previous (same reading in ubuntu and mandriva) HP-Linux:/home/anubis # fdisk -l Disco /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 byte 255 testine, 63 settori/tracce, 30401 cilindri Unità = cilindri di 16065 * 512 = 8225280 byte Identificativo disco: 0x00097ba0 Dispositivo Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 21828 175333378+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 * 21829 30401 68862622+ 5 Esteso /dev/sda5 21829 21958 1044193+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 21959 30401 67818366 83 Linux Disco /dev/sdb: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 byte 255 testine, 63 settori/tracce, 12161 cilindri Unità = cilindri di 16065 * 512 = 8225280 byte Identificativo disco: 0x000bb8cf Dispositivo Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 12161 97683201 83 Linux the result is that grub as been installed in the 100GB HD MBR and not in 250GB one. the pc is no more able to boot, even if i change from bios the hd boot order, or, as i deed, installing mbr in the correct mbr.. -- 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=450268 User aj@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450268#c1 Andreas Jaeger <aj@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |andrea@opensuse.org --- Comment #1 from Andreas Jaeger <aj@novell.com> 2008-11-29 23:45:43 MST --- please attach the yast log files (see http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs/YaST) -- 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=450268 User andrea@opensuse.org added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450268#c2 --- Comment #2 from andrea florio <andrea@opensuse.org> 2008-11-30 06:58:38 MST --- Created an attachment (id=256782) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=256782) yast2 logs as requested here yast logs... for any other info ask. btw, the only distro that show me the same things as suse 11.1 rc1 is knoppix... (suse 11.1 beta5 have NOT this problem). from what i can see default grub location is sda mbr and here sda is the 100 GB not the 250GB one -- 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=450268 User andrea@opensuse.org added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450268#c3 --- Comment #3 from andrea florio <andrea@opensuse.org> 2008-12-02 02:32:33 MST --- any news? -- 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=450268 User jdsn@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450268#c4 J. Daniel Schmidt <jdsn@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jdsn@novell.com Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|andrea@opensuse.org | --- Comment #4 from J. Daniel Schmidt <jdsn@novell.com> 2008-12-02 09:39:55 MST --- Please remove the "needinfo" flag if you provided the needed information. Maybe related to bug #450963 ?? -- 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=450268 User andrea@opensuse.org added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450268#c5 --- Comment #5 from andrea florio <andrea@opensuse.org> 2008-12-02 10:48:08 MST --- i'm not sure, have to try installation again. there the problem looks to be due to a wrong (or broken) mbr im my case, it dectets sda like sdb and sdb like sda... so installing grub it was installed in the sda mbr. turning on the pc i have NO grub, so no wrong stages.. it was simply installed on wrong mbr.. workarounds are 3 1) from bios invert hd boot order 2) open pc and invert hd channels 3) start pc with a live and install grub in the right hd. (the solution i use) the real problem is that i know how to workaround but other users not... they will found no linux installed (if dualboot exist, windows will start) -- 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=450268 Andreas Jaeger <aj@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |teheo@novell.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com |snwint@novell.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=450268 User teheo@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450268#c6 --- Comment #6 from Tejun Heo <teheo@novell.com> 2008-12-02 19:10:45 MST --- Andrea, can you please attach /var/log/boot.msg and post the result of the following command? $ for i in /sys/firmware/edd/*; do echo $i; readlink $i/pci_dev; cat $i/interface; echo; done The matching between BIOS devices and OS ones are done by EDD and something seems to have screwed that up. -- 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=450268 User andrea@opensuse.org added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450268#c7 --- Comment #7 from andrea florio <andrea@opensuse.org> 2008-12-02 23:37:13 MST --- Created an attachment (id=257580) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=257580) info requested attached the log.. and about the command... linux-susz:/home/anubis # for i in /sys/firmware/edd/*; do echo $i; readlink $i/pci_dev; cat; $i/interface; echo; done /sys/firmware/edd/int13_dev80 ./../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.0 i have to kill the process or it "freeze" here (is it normal) ? -- 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=450268 User andrea@opensuse.org added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450268#c8 --- Comment #8 from andrea florio <andrea@opensuse.org> 2008-12-03 00:35:52 MST --- ok, i re-installed the system to see better where the problem is.. that time i DID NOT added online repos and hd look to be detected well... could the problem be "random" ? any way, if that one is a duplicate of bug #450963 i'll see -- 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=450268 User andrea@opensuse.org added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450268#c9 --- Comment #9 from andrea florio <andrea@opensuse.org> 2008-12-03 01:18:31 MST --- i'm not sure what's appened... i have a grub.. but linux do not start... nor in normal, nor in failsafe... i'm blocked here... try to re-install it again.. -- 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=450268 User teheo@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450268#c10 --- Comment #10 from Tejun Heo <teheo@novell.com> 2008-12-03 02:12:11 MST --- Hmm... the command blocks? That's weird. Can you please do "ls /sys/firmware/edd/int13_dev80/" and "cat /sys/firmware/edd/int13_dev80/interface" and report the result? Also, whether a device is assigned /dev/sda or /dev/sdb doesn't really matter. The BIOS mapping of device is discovered separately and mapped to discovered OS devices. Steffen, I don't know much about grub. It uses /sys/firmware/edd/* to map the devices, right? -- 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=450268 User andrea@opensuse.org added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450268#c11 --- Comment #11 from andrea florio <andrea@opensuse.org> 2008-12-03 03:28:39 MST --- ok.. well i installed it 4 times and i was not able to reproduce, in the same way, sda and sdb are detected in the right way... (no manual fix) i'm installing for the 5th time i'll see.. hoping it fail no more... are outputs usefull any way? -- 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=450268 User teheo@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450268#c12 --- Comment #12 from Tejun Heo <teheo@novell.com> 2008-12-03 03:40:54 MST --- Yes, please. Detection order shouldn't affect grub installation. Something about edd is malfunctioning. -- 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=450268 User snwint@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450268#c13 Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |snwint@novell.com AssignedTo|snwint@novell.com |juhliarik@novell.com --- Comment #13 from Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint@novell.com> 2008-12-03 03:41:54 MST --- Yes.
From what I see in the logs above, I'd say that
sda = 250GB = bios_dev 0x80 sdb = 100GB So, it looks fine to me. Don't know about the bootloader setup, though. Jozef? -- 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=450268 User snwint@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450268#c14 --- Comment #14 from Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint@novell.com> 2008-12-03 03:43:19 MST --- Uhm, my last comment is a reply to comment 10. -- 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=450268 User andrea@opensuse.org added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450268#c15 --- Comment #15 from andrea florio <andrea@opensuse.org> 2008-12-03 04:26:59 MST --- this time, no errors again.. but output is different.. infact.. the first one WAS: linux-susz:/home/anubis # for i in /sys/firmware/edd/*; do echo $i; readlink $i/pci_dev; cat; $i/interface; echo; done /sys/firmware/edd/int13_dev80 ./../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.0 now is: linux-exyk:/home/andrea # for i in /sys/firmware/edd/*; do echo $i; readlink
$i/pci_dev; cat; $i/interface; echo; done /sys/firmware/edd/int13_dev80 readlink: missing operand Usare `readlink --help' per ulteriori informazioni. bash: /sys/firmware/edd/int13_dev80/pci_dev: is a directory
i have to kill that one too... andrea@linux-exyk:/sys/firmware/edd/int13_dev80> ls default_cylinders info_flags mbr_signature default_heads interface pci_dev default_sectors_per_track legacy_max_cylinder raw_data extensions legacy_max_head sectors host_bus legacy_sectors_per_track version andrea@linux-exyk:/sys/firmware/edd/int13_dev80> cat interface ATA device: 0 -- 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=450268 User andrea@opensuse.org added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450268#c16 --- Comment #16 from andrea florio <andrea@opensuse.org> 2008-12-03 04:51:11 MST --- ok, the problem occur again!!!! i rebooted the pc and i got: "Error No operating system Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Instert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key" looks to similar to bug #450963 can you confirm that? mbr wrote bad? may be? i'm going to fix it manually (i need that pc) -- 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=450268 User andrea@opensuse.org added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450268#c17 --- Comment #17 from andrea florio <andrea@opensuse.org> 2008-12-03 05:29:14 MST --- i think that bug should be closed as INVALID and another one should be open, like the merge of that one and of bug #450963 both infact detects an INVALID MBR -- 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=450268 User juhliarik@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450268#c18 Jozef Uhliarik <juhliarik@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|juhliarik@novell.com |snwint@novell.com --- Comment #18 from Jozef Uhliarik <juhliarik@novell.com> 2008-12-03 06:12:40 MST --- Andrea the bug is valid!!! I can confirm comment #13 from logs: there are 2 disks /dev/sda/ (250G) and /dev/sdb (100G) yast2-bootloader works with the disks in "correct order" /dev/sda is the first disk (bios_id 0x80) and /dev/sdb is the second disk. Steffen but please look at Description of bug. User wrote that his 250G disk is the /dev/sdb and it is the second disk in order. --> It means you select wrong disk like the first disk in order. The setup of bootloader is good in this case but detection order of disks is wrong. BTW. user can change order of disks manually in yast2-bootloader: "Boot Loader Installation" (tab) -> "Boot Loader Installation Details" (button) -- 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=450268 User teheo@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450268#c19 --- Comment #19 from Tejun Heo <teheo@novell.com> 2008-12-03 06:25:58 MST --- (In reply to comment #15 from andrea florio)
linux-susz:/home/anubis # for i in /sys/firmware/edd/*; do echo $i; readlink $i/pci_dev; cat; $i/interface; echo; done
No ';' after 'cat'! -- 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=450268 User andrea@opensuse.org added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450268#c20 --- Comment #20 from andrea florio <andrea@opensuse.org> 2008-12-03 06:32:31 MST --- sorry... linux-exyk:/home/andrea # for i in /sys/firmware/edd/*; do echo $i; readlink $i/pci_dev; cat $i/interface; echo; done /sys/firmware/edd/int13_dev80 ./../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.0 ATA device: 0 any way, consider comment #17 -- 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=450268 User snwint@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450268#c21 Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |andrea@opensuse.org --- Comment #21 from Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint@novell.com> 2008-12-03 06:41:02 MST --- AFAIUI the MBR should be installed to the 250GB disk. Andrea, can you clarify this, please? -- 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=450268 User andrea@opensuse.org added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450268#c22 --- Comment #22 from andrea florio <andrea@opensuse.org> 2008-12-03 06:48:58 MST --- well... i had the problem sda/sdb only the first time, i installed 7 times and i was never able to reproduce it instead i got 4 times the problem "Error No operating system Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Instert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key" the allow me to think that even the first time, the bootloader was installed into the 250GB HD mbr, but due to a problem like bug #450963 , it was written "bad" or any way was corrupted -- 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=450268 User snwint@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450268#c23 Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC|snwint@novell.com | AssignedTo|snwint@novell.com |juhliarik@novell.com Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|andrea@opensuse.org | --- Comment #23 from Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint@novell.com> 2008-12-03 07:03:35 MST --- Thanks. So this is _not_ a detection thing. -- 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=450268 User coolo@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450268#c24 Stephan Kulow <coolo@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |juhliarik@novell.com --- Comment #24 from Stephan Kulow <coolo@novell.com> 2008-12-03 07:13:39 MST --- I must say I don't understand the bug. 250GB was always seen as the one to go, but _sometimes_ yast does not write the MBR there? -- 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=450268 User juhliarik@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450268#c25 Jozef Uhliarik <juhliarik@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|juhliarik@novell.com | --- Comment #25 from Jozef Uhliarik <juhliarik@novell.com> 2008-12-03 08:34:00 MST --- It is too confused now. I just checked yast logs from installation (comment #2). In this case the first disk in order was /dev/sda (250G) There is installed generic boot code and activated extended partition. bootloader configuration is valid. 2008-11-28 12:30:46 <1> linux(3323) [YCP] bootloader/grub/misc.ycp:361 Copying generic MBR code to /dev/sda 2008-11-28 12:30:46 <1> linux(3323) [YCP] bootloader/grub/misc.ycp:367 Running command /bin/dd bs=440 count=1 if=/usr/lib/boot/master-boot-code of=/dev/sda 2008-11-28 12:30:46 <1> linux(3323) [YCP] bootloader/grub/misc.ycp:370 Command output: $[ "exit":0, "stderr":"1+0 records in\n1+0 records out\n440 bytes (440 B) copied, 0,00014748 s, 3,0 MB/s\n", "stdout":"" ] I don't see there any problem in bootloader configuration if order of disks is valid. -- 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=450268 Jozef Uhliarik <juhliarik@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED -- 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=450268 User juhliarik@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450268#c26 Jozef Uhliarik <juhliarik@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |andrea@opensuse.org --- Comment #26 from Jozef Uhliarik <juhliarik@novell.com> 2008-12-03 08:42:18 MST --- Andrea only simple question: yast logs in comment #2 includes information that your the first disk is /dev/sda (250G) Are you sure that you started installation with /dev/sda (250G) like the first disk (booting disk in BIOS)? -- 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=450268 Jozef Uhliarik <juhliarik@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Severity|Blocker |Major Priority|P5 - None |P3 - Medium -- 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=450268 User andrea@opensuse.org added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450268#c27 andrea florio <andrea@opensuse.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |ASSIGNED Info Provider|andrea@opensuse.org | --- Comment #27 from andrea florio <andrea@opensuse.org> 2008-12-03 13:25:25 MST --- @ comment #23 no, think _not_ to be a detection thing @ comment #24 exactly, even when the 250GB was sdb grub was installed in that HD. i think that write but not write good, maybe corrupt i think @ comment #25 indeed.. that's why i told that should be considered invalid, while a new bug should be open. @ comment #26 yes i'm sure but i used dvd restore tool @ all to explain better: 1st installation: sda and sdb problem occurr, 250 was red as sdb and 100 like sda after installation end i boot computer but i got that error: "Error No operating system Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Instert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key" so i used dvd repair tool to find the problem there i discovered the "sda/sdb" issuem and i changed partition order. i was not able to fix anyway, so i started a live cd and i fixed with the following commads: # gurb grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 grub> root (hdx,y) grub> setup (hdx) grub> quit simply i re-installed grub into the mbr using a live cd. 2nd to 7th installation: NO sda/sdb problem, NEVER, i was not able to reproduce the issue. 3 times everything was ok, installed fine and grub too... 3 times instead, i got the same error : "Error No operating system Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Instert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key" reading also bug #450963 i think that the problem was ALWAYS the wrong mbr looks infact, that when grub is installed into mbr 4 times on 7 (in my installations...) some times mbr is NOT well write, so, when bios try to read the mbr to boot the OS, it find or NO ONE, or an INVALID one, so it tell me: "Error No operating system Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Instert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key" -- 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=450268 User andrea@opensuse.org added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450268#c28 andrea florio <andrea@opensuse.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED Resolution| |INVALID --- Comment #28 from andrea florio <andrea@opensuse.org> 2008-12-27 06:37:25 MST --- i close the bug as invalid, the problem is now, and exist because on suse 11.1 grub is installed on linux partition and not on mbr. work around : manually choose where install grub -- 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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