[Bug 240291] New: Installation with software raid in combination with fake raid fails to boot
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240291 Summary: Installation with software raid in combination with fake raid fails to boot Product: SUSE Linux 10.1 Version: Final Platform: x86 OS/Version: SLES 10 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: leo@kangaroot.net QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Fresh sles10 installation on a machine were I put my / on /dev/md0 , /var on /dev/md1 and /home on /dev/md2 The filesystems used for these 3 disks is ext3 If I reboot after the first step of the installation my machine no longer boots saying "no operating systems found..." I thought it was caused by the so called fake raid which was also available 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation Enterprise Southbridge PATA (rev 09) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation Enterprise Southbridge SATA IDE (rev 09) (motherboard is a Supermicro X7DVL) Playing with some values in the bios to disable this fakeraid didn't help either. Always the same error. Only workaround to make my system start is to create a seperate /boot partition on one of the 2 disks. (/boot partition also ext3) but offcourse by doing it this way i don't have backup in case something goes wrong with the disk on which my /boot partition is. According to me it has something to do with the combination of grub,bios,software raid an fake raid. After searching a little bit on bugzilla i found 2 more or less the same bugs: #227377 and #233758 -- 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=240291 chrubis@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |leo@kangaroot.net ------- Comment #1 from chrubis@novell.com 2007-01-31 08:22 MST ------- Please attach y2logs. If you are in doubt please 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=240291 ------- Comment #2 from leo@kangaroot.net 2007-02-01 01:49 MST ------- Created an attachment (id=116745) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=116745&action=view) Requested yast logs from current installation These are the logfiles of the current working installation with a seperate /boot partition. As I still have a second machine with the exact same hardware configuration I will also do a broken installation this week and attach those logs as well. -- 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=240291 ------- Comment #3 from leo@kangaroot.net 2007-02-01 01:52 MST ------- Created an attachment (id=116748) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=116748&action=view) Hardware info of the machine output of hwinfo on this machine -- 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=240291 leo@kangaroot.net changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |leo@kangaroot.net ------- Comment #4 from leo@kangaroot.net 2007-02-02 08:42 MST ------- Okay when starting the SLES10 installation I get the following warning just before the 'System analysis' step Error WARNING: This system has at least one hard disk with a RAID configuration presented by the BIOS as RAID that is in fact a software RAID. The following disks were detected as part of such a RAID: /dev/sda /dev/sdb The Linux kernel 2.4 supported some of these systems (like Promise FastTrack and HighPoint RocketRaid), but the Linux kernel 2.6 does not support them at all. If you install onto thse disks, your RAID configuration and any data on the RAID will be lost. Refer to http://portal.suse.com to learn how to migrate to a Linux software RAID. -- 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=240291 leo@kangaroot.net changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|leo@kangaroot.net | ------- Comment #5 from leo@kangaroot.net 2007-02-02 09:04 MST ------- Created an attachment (id=117113) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=117113&action=view) y2logs of the machine that fails to boot First stage of installation is completely finished and after the first reboot the machine fails with 'Booting from local disk...No operating system found' -- 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=240291 chrubis@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team- |fehr@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=240291 fehr@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |fehr@novell.com AssignedTo|fehr@novell.com |odabrunz@novell.com ------- Comment #6 from fehr@novell.com 2007-02-07 06:49 MST ------- I cannot find any problems during partitioning and raid setup. Olaf could you check if there was any problem with boot loader setup. -- 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=240291 stefan.fent@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |leo@kangaroot.net ------- Comment #7 from stefan.fent@novell.com 2007-02-07 09:27 MST ------- So you installed on this machines _despite_ the warning? The BIOS expects a RAID that isn't existing - being able to boot from such a system is not supposed to work. According to the log, everything looks ok, probably the fakeRAID is the issue here Some of the logfiles are missing, especially y2log_bootloader. So can you please add this one or, if not available, /etc/grub.cong and /boot/grub/menu.lst. -- 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=240291 ------- Comment #8 from fehr@novell.com 2007-02-07 09:35 MST ------- The warning does not necessarily mean installation will fail, it is more to tell the user about possible loss of data if raid is configured and used via windows or any other OS supporting the BIOS raid setup. My test machine has a PDC raid controller and of course it also displays this warning. Installation onto plain disks and booting nevertheless works fine on this machine. My experience with BIOS raid controllers is that every type of these controllers behaves subtly different and it is difficult to transfer experience gained on one controller to other controllers. -- 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=240291 leo@kangaroot.net changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|leo@kangaroot.net | ------- Comment #9 from leo@kangaroot.net 2007-02-26 04:28 MST ------- Created an attachment (id=121019) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=121019&action=view) results of new installation on same hardware -- 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.
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