[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.
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Steffen Winterfeldt
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.
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--- Comment #15 from andrea florio
$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.
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Jozef Uhliarik
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--- Comment #19 from Tejun Heo
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.
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