https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483175 User abittner@stud.fh-heilbronn.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483175#c2 --- Comment #2 from andreas bittner 2009-03-07 08:49:40 MST --- clean 11.1 x86 install gives me a bootable system but just as long as the sda (first sata hdd) is connected. also manually selecting during bios/POST to boot system from second sata sdb hdd doesnt give any output. no grub lines, nothing. system just idles there after the POST screens and summary tables and messages of the bios POST. so grub doesnt get installed properly/at all onto the sdb disk. will attach logs. -- 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=483175 User abittner@stud.fh-heilbronn.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483175#c4 --- Comment #4 from andreas bittner 2009-03-07 09:48:29 MST --- according to http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2009-02/msg00597.html http://de.opensuse.org/SDB:Der_Bootmanager_GRUB#GRUB_manuell_installieren i ran grub as rootuser from the inside the new 11.1 system. and first looked up my two sata harddisks in /boot/grub/device.map

(hd0) /dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_HD753LJ_S13UJDWQ702567 (hd1) /dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_HD753LJ_S13UJDWQ702565 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_HD753LJ_S13UJDWQ702567 and then inside grub commandline shell: device (hd0) /dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_HD753LJ_S13UJDWQ702567

and according to mdadm -D /dev/md1 my / (root) filesystem is on /dev/sda5 and /dev/sdb5 partitions so then in grub i do: root (hd0,4) giving me output:

Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0xfd so that / partition on /dev/sda(5) is indeed of partition type 0xFD, Linux RAID

and then inside grub: setup (hd0)

setup (hd0) 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)"... 17 sectors are embedded. succeeded Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+17 p (hd0,4)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded Done.

and then same for the other sata disk /dev/sdb in grub: grub> device (hd0) /dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_HD753LJ_S13UJDWQ702565 device (hd0) /dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_HD753LJ_S13UJDWQ702565 grub> root (hd0,4) root (hd0,4) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0xfd grub> setup (hd0) setup (hd0) 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)"... 17 sectors are embedded. succeeded Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+17 p (hd0,4)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded Done. --------- after exiting grub commandline shell and rebooting the 11.1 system, the whole box boots fine even when being selected to boot from second sata disk inside bios/POST screen, or when disconnecting the first sata disk and so on. it would be great if this bug could be fixed, and if there was some way to update the opensuse 11.1 iso images to embed these and other essential bugfixes and newer rpm packages. is there any way to patch/re-build the opensuse iso install images? thanks and regards. -- 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=483175 Cyril Hrubis changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |yast2-maintainers@suse.de |ovo.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=483175 User abittner@stud.fh-heilbronn.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483175#c7 --- Comment #7 from andreas bittner 2009-03-10 05:50:17 MST --- hmm and i thought i was having backups for having data safety and having raid for having system (uptime) safety..... i was looking at the system as whole. i wasnt exactly reconfiguring bios, but my bios allows me via F8 keypress to manually select from detected storage divices which to boot from. now i am no storage, ibm or standards and compatibility expert or engineer and i dont know the exact details and specs and/or differences if there are any between reconfiguring bios to boot from exact device, or letting bios try various devices and skip to others if it cannot boot from a device (because not present, or because not bootable) that has been configured manually, and so forth. but i can try what happens when i let the bootdevice in my bios configured to first sata disk and disconnect it, if that behaves differently. anyways, as there are some solutions about how to install grub properly in raid1 scenarios on all involved disks and there are quite a number of other bugreports and demand of users to enhance this, it would be really great if this could be finally added and enhanced. this would also hopefully mean that opensuse resuce/repair mode bootup from opensuse dvd/cd media and everything that is related to this stuff would also be able to handle these situations and so on. thanks and regards. -- 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=483175 Josef Reidinger 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.