[Bug 224476] New: ERROR: Core::SplidDevPath: Cannot get device for (hd0,20)/boot/grub/stage1
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=224476 Summary: ERROR: Core::SplidDevPath: Cannot get device for (hd0,20)/boot/grub/stage1 Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: RC 1 Platform: PC OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Kernel AssignedTo: kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: mrmazda@ij.net QAContact: qa@suse.de CC: aj@novell.com ERROR: Core::SplidDevPath: Cannot get device for (hd0,20)/boot/grub/stage1 ERROR: Core::SplidDevPath: Cannot get device for (hd0,20)/boot/grub/stage2 These messages happened at the conclusion of using rpm -ivh on the latest kernel yesterday, after the bootsplash messages from mkinitrd. The initial installation was ftp from the beta2 mirror state to hda21. Before upgrading with YaST2 to RC1, I had rearranged my partitioning, and factory was successfully moved to hda10. Afterwards, hda21 no longer existed. At the conclusion of the update to RC1, /etc/grub.conf remained as beta2 installation initially created it, with the obsolete target partition. Either the upgrade process or the kernel installer or both should check to be sure /etc/grub.conf is valid before using it. -- 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=224476 gregkh@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|kernel- |bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com |maintainers@forge.provo.nove| |ll.com | Component|Kernel |Installation QAContact|qa@suse.de |jsrain@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=224476 mhorvath@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team- |kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com |screening@forge.provo.novell| |.com | ------- Comment #1 from mhorvath@novell.com 2006-12-15 07:47 MST ------- According to the yast maintainers the grub check is handled by the kernel package scripts, so I'm going to reassign it to the kernel maintainers. -- 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=224476 gregkh@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|kernel- |agruen@novell.com |maintainers@forge.provo.nove| |ll.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=224476 agruen@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|agruen@novell.com |jplack@novell.com ------- Comment #2 from agruen@novell.com 2006-12-22 01:12 MST ------- This is a perl-Bootloader bug. -- 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=224476 jplack@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |mrmazda@ij.net ------- Comment #3 from jplack@novell.com 2006-12-22 04:28 MST ------- Well honestly the user is the only one to check for his bootloader configuration _semantic_. Things like this never can be done automatically in a way to please all or mostly all users. But I agree that there could be done more for the user to understand what he could/should do. Nevertheless the error message above does not stop the kernel install, I think it leaves you with a broken bootloader configuration as you had it before ... Please attach the full yast logs (/var/log/YaST2/* /etc/grub.conf /boot/grub/menu.lst /boot/grub/device.map) so that I can see what I can do. -- 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=224476 ------- Comment #4 from mrmazda@ij.net 2006-12-22 08:51 MST ------- Created an attachment (id=110934) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=110934&action=view) /boot/grub/menu.lst as last modified prior to filing this bug -- 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=224476 ------- Comment #5 from mrmazda@ij.net 2006-12-22 08:51 MST ------- Created an attachment (id=110935) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=110935&action=view) /boot/grub/device.map -- 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=224476 ------- Comment #6 from mrmazda@ij.net 2006-12-22 08:51 MST ------- Created an attachment (id=110936) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=110936&action=view) /etc/grub.conf created on original 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=224476 ------- Comment #7 from mrmazda@ij.net 2006-12-22 08:51 MST ------- Created an attachment (id=110937) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=110937&action=view) /etc/grub.conf - current -- 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=224476 ------- Comment #8 from mrmazda@ij.net 2006-12-22 08:51 MST ------- Created an attachment (id=110938) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=110938&action=view) /boot/grub/menu.lst - current -- 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=224476 mrmazda@ij.net changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|mrmazda@ij.net | ------- Comment #9 from mrmazda@ij.net 2006-12-22 09:16 MST ------- Created an attachment (id=110941) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=110941&action=view) zip of /var/log/YaST2/* http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2006-11/msg04247.html starts the mailing list thread where I initially described the problem. I only filed a bug because AJ asked me to. After moving my partition, I thought I had done all the configuring that needed doing. Prior to encountering this problem, I had no idea there was such a file as /etc/grub.conf, except for on some versions Fedora, where it exists as a symlink to /boot/grub/grub.conf, which Fedora's Grub uses instead of /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.
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Other distros don't depend on /etc/grub.conf, so average users don't know when they "check booting settings" that it exists and should look at or change it. mkinitrd and/or YaST if they insist to use this file should either perform a sanity check on it before using it, (comment 0) or issue a warning so the user can discover this file exists and may need modification.
I don't know what you mean by "propose new in yast bootloader". All I did was rpm -ivh a kernel. That followed a typical upgrade that followed an (atypical) partition move accompanied by manually and successfully reconfiguring the standard boot config files fstab and menu.lst.
Would it be so hard to add a sanity check of grub.conf before using it?
Yes, it is quite problem, because during kernel upgrade you don't touch it (don't change it). Perl-Bootloader only use it as grub --batch < /etc/grub.conf. But you are right, that it need to be documented. Where you expect this documentation? -- 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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