[Bug 279837] New: grub cannot write boot record (Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20319 (FastTrak S150 TX4) (rev 02))
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=279837 Summary: grub cannot write boot record (Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20319 (FastTrak S150 TX4) (rev 02)) Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Alpha 4 Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com CC: daniel.rahn@novell.com If you are using a system with a FastTrak S150 TX4 controller, you have to define even for a single disk a RAID0. If you are installing on this system fedora (6 or higher) or rhel 5 in all cases a new partition table has to be created and you will get partitions like /dev/mapper/pdc_bjfeeibeeb.... If you wish to install openSUSE on such a disk, everything will work except, there is no boot-record written. Same happens on other systems, when dm-raid is used to use a RAID. Attached error from 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=279837 ------- Comment #1 from Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com 2007-06-01 00:56 MST ------- Created an attachment (id=143421) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=143421&action=view) error message from grub ( create a Boot Record) -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=279837 chrubis@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com ------- Comment #2 from chrubis@novell.com 2007-06-01 10:45 MST ------- Please attach y2logs. If you are in doubt follow: http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs/YaST Thanks! -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=279837 Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu- | |siemens.com | ------- Comment #3 from Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com 2007-06-05 01:11 MST ------- Created an attachment (id=144085) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=144085&action=view) requested y2logs -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=279837 chrubis@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team- |odabrunz@novell.com |screening@forge.provo.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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=279837 ------- Comment #4 from Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com 2007-06-14 07:53 MST ------- Update for openSUSE 10.3 Alpha5 : With the new release I see additional problems - I wanted to overwrite my previous openSUSE 10.3 Alpha4 installation ( and keep the other distributions ) : 1 ) first try with reformatting the partions - installation starts, but fails formatting the partition system code : -3030 2 ) second try - deleting just the data in the partition and start a new installation without format - this does not work, because the installer does not see the correct format of the partition - you see just DM RAID 3 ) third try - deleting the partition and allocation of a new root partition, same as 1) installation starts, but fails formatting the partition system code : -3030 summary - currently I am failing to install openSUSE 10.3 Alpha5 together with rhel5/fedora on a system with FastTrek S150 TX4 controller. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=279837#c5 Bjoern Bendix <bbendix@web.de> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |bbendix@web.de --- Comment #5 from Bjoern Bendix <bbendix@web.de> 2007-07-22 10:47:37 MST --- Hello, Looks like the same problem as in Bug 293728 -- 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=279837#c6 --- Comment #6 from Richard Creighton <rccj@ricreig.com> 2007-07-22 11:39:07 MST --- This is not limited to DMRaid or to Promise. Alpha-6 just 'ate' my 10.3a5 system that I had added a MD5 1TB software raid to. When GRUB wrote the partition table/FSTAB, it wiped it clean. I ended up reinstalling 10.3a5 after removing the 4 disk Raid set which fortunately were revivable. I also revived my /home which was on a separate drive but I spent many hours finding RPMs that had libraries that restored XMMS, XINE, Video Lan, Media Player and others that I had imported from 10.2 but which aren't properly supported yet in 10.3aX. I use an ASUS M2NPV-VM w/3gig 1TBraid 5 120G bootable IDE drive. -- 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=279837#c7 --- Comment #7 from Winfrid Tschiedel <Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com> 2007-09-12 03:12:59 MST --- I found now a method to write to a disk controlled by dmraid bootrecords, but I doubt that this method works for all RAID configurations, in my case it was just a RAID0 with one disk : GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename. ] grub> device (hd1,4) /dev/sdb5 grub> device (hd1) /dev/sdb grub> root (hd1,4) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 grub> setup (hd1,4) Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd1,4)"... failed (this is not fatal) Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd1,4)"... failed (this is not fatal) Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd1,4) /boot/grub/stage2 p /boot/grub/menu lst "... succeeded Done. I think the correct method under grub should be device (hd1,4) /dev/mapper/pdc_bjfeeibeeb_part5 device (hd1) /dev/mapper/pdc_bjfeeibeeb root (hd1,4) setup (hd1,4) but this fails with Error 22: No such partition -- 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=279837 Matej Horvath <mhorvath@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com |stefan.fent@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=279837#c9 Stefan Fent <stefan.fent@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com --- Comment #9 from Stefan Fent <stefan.fent@novell.com> 2007-10-24 12:44:35 MST --- Is this still valid for 10.3 final? The bug mentioned in Comment #5 is closed. -- 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=279837#c10 Winfrid Tschiedel <Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com | --- Comment #10 from Winfrid Tschiedel <Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com> 2007-10-25 01:33:17 MST --- Hello Stefan, This bug has a long history and during evaluation of openSUSE 10.3 additional problems came up, so at some stage it was even not possible to install a systems. So we should now concentrate on the problem - grub should be able to write a bootrecord to a partition to support multiboot via chainloader. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Gentoo_with_NVRAID_using_dmraid 6.5.1 Installing grub Method 1 describes how to write a bootrecord other than MBR. This method works e.g. for ubuntu and redhat base distributions, but it fails in case of openSUSE ( 279837#7 ). Which is the correct way to install a bootrecord to dmraid controlled diskconfiguartion on NOVELL ? Please keep in mind, that some SATA RAID contollers support only RAID disks. Just a note, none of the distributions was able to write during installation a bootrecord to a partition, all the time an MBR was written, but one could fix the problem later with the above described method. At RedHat I have opened an entry for this problem : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225551 I hope this helps. Winfrid -- 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=279837 Stefan Fent <stefan.fent@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|stefan.fent@novell.com |jplack@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=279837#c11 --- Comment #11 from Winfrid Tschiedel <Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com> 2007-11-27 00:47:33 MST --- In the meantime I found a bypass for booting openSUSE when the MBR was not written by openSUSE. If I specify in "menu.lst" a configfile for openSUSE, I am able to boot openSUSE without writing a bootrecord to the root-filesystem. Nevertheless I would prefer to have a bootrecord in "/" and use the chainloader for booting. Winfrid -- 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=279837 User jplack@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=279837#c12 Joachim Plack <jplack@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |LATER --- Comment #12 from Joachim Plack <jplack@novell.com> 2007-12-12 13:04:02 MST --- No ressources assigned here right now, will address problem later -- 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=279837 User Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=279837#c13 Winfrid Tschiedel <Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|LATER | --- Comment #13 from Winfrid Tschiedel <Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com> 2007-12-13 00:53:28 MST --- Problem exists also for openSUSE 11.0 Alpha0. Maybe you should address the problem there. Winfrid -- 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=279837 User Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=279837#c14 --- Comment #14 from Winfrid Tschiedel <Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com> 2007-12-13 00:53:49 MST --- Problem exists also for openSUSE 11.0 Alpha0. Maybe you should address the problem there. Winfrid -- 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=279837 Stanislav Visnovsky <visnov@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |visnov@novell.com Component|Installation |Booting -- 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=279837 User Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=279837#c15 --- Comment #15 from Winfrid Tschiedel <Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com> 2008-07-10 05:03:02 MDT --- Problem still exists for openSUSE 11.1 Alpha0/ openSUSE 11.0 GM. The bypass mentioned in #11 does not work anymore for the Promise FastTrac S150 TX4, but I was able to generate with KNOPPIX 5.3.1 a bootrecord in the root partition, which works with the openSUSE bootloader. Winfrid PS.: I am not up-to-date with the features of SLES 11, but as far as I know, there is a request for full dmraid support on SLES 11. -- 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=279837 Joachim Plack <jplack@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|jplack@novell.com |juhliarik@novell.com Status|REOPENED |NEW -- 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=279837 User juhliarik@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=279837#c16 Jozef Uhliarik <juhliarik@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com --- Comment #16 from Jozef Uhliarik <juhliarik@novell.com> 2008-07-27 13:44:02 MDT --- I have also DM RAID and it works without problems. Could you send me logs from your testing installation openSUSE 11.0 GM 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=279837 User Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=279837#c17 --- Comment #17 from Winfrid Tschiedel <Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com> 2008-07-30 07:39:12 MDT --- Created an attachment (id=230770) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=230770) y2logs for openSUSE 11.1 Alpha1 installation Please remind - this dmraid based installation for openSUSE 11.1 is done on a system with a working dmraid. openSUSE must not write a MBR - it should only write a bootrecord to "/" - in this case to /dev/mapper/pdc_cjgdhdfafh_part8 also /boot is no separate partition. -- 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=279837 User Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=279837#c18 Winfrid Tschiedel <Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |ASSIGNED Info Provider|Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com | --- Comment #18 from Winfrid Tschiedel <Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com> 2008-07-30 07:46:35 MDT --- After installing of openSUSE 11.1 the system cannot be bootet. 1) no boot record was written 2) boot with root (hd0,7) configfile /boot/grub/menu.lst does not work. 3) boot record was written with knoppix 5.3.1 - after this the system is bootable with boot (hd0,7) chainloader +1 4) method to write a boot record like knoppix can do does not work on any novell linux ! grub grub> device (hd0,7) /dev/mapper/pdc_cjgdhdfafh_part8 grub> device (hd0) /dev/mapper/pdc_cjgdhdfafh grub> root (hd0,7) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 grub> setup (hd0,7) Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,7)"... failed (this is not fatal) Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,7)"... failed (this is not fatal) Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0,7) /boot/grub/stage2 p /boot/grub/menu lst "... failed Error 22: No such partition -- 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=279837 User Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=279837#c19 --- Comment #19 from Winfrid Tschiedel <Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com> 2008-08-06 08:17:00 MDT --- Today I tried SLES 11 Alpha1 - Basically the same problems as on openSUSE 11.1 Alpha1, but system cannot be rebooted after installation - the bootprocess is aborted with "invalid rootpartition". Winfrid -- 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=279837 User Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=279837#c20 Winfrid Tschiedel <Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Component|Booting |Booting Product|openSUSE 10.3 |openSUSE 11.1 Version|Alpha 4 |Alpha 1 --- Comment #20 from Winfrid Tschiedel <Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com> 2008-08-07 02:25:17 MDT --- Remarks : Please change product to openSUSE 11.1 or SLES 11. I suppose that the problem can be reproduced on any hardware supported by dmraid. I reproduced the problems also on a tx200s3 ( ESB2, LSI firmware, ddf1 ) -- 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=279837 User Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=279837#c21 --- Comment #21 from Winfrid Tschiedel <Winfrid.Tschiedel@fujitsu-siemens.com> 2008-08-07 05:37:35 MDT --- (In reply to comment #19 from Winfrid Tschiedel)
Today I tried SLES 11 Alpha1 - Basically the same problems as on openSUSE 11.1 Alpha1, but system cannot be rebooted after installation - the bootprocess is aborted with "invalid rootpartition". Winfrid
Just an addon - the message invalid root partition is caused by the actual SLES 11 kernel - in a quick and dirty way I copied the openSUSE 11.1 kernel to SLES 11, with this kernel the system was bootable and I could continue with the second part of the 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=279837 Stanislav Visnovsky <visnov@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P5 - None |P2 - High -- 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=279837 User juhliarik@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=279837#c22 Jozef Uhliarik <juhliarik@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|juhliarik@novell.com |jreidinger@novell.com Status|ASSIGNED |NEW --- Comment #22 from Jozef Uhliarik <juhliarik@novell.com> 2008-09-17 06:05:19 MDT --- I did checking of logs and the problem is in perl-Bootloader and wrong settings for installing grub. from logs: 2008-07-29 17:38:22 <1> linux(3121) [YCP] bootloader/routines/lib_iface.ycp:192 Storing global settings $[ "boot_mbr":"true", "default":"openSUSE 11.0.42", "lines_cache_id":"9", "timeout":"8" ] grub.conf: setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 --force-lba (hd0,0) (hd0,7) (hd0,0) seems to be wrong ;-) Josef it seems to be problem of perl-Bootloader -- 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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