[opensuse-factory] broken grub after update from beta1
Hi, I updated a x86_64 machine from beta1 to beta3. After the packages were installed I found the machine in a reboot loop. The grub boot loader was not working any longer. So I tried Repair System. The automatic one obviously deleted Windows from menu.lst. Then it threw an error about not being able to access /dev/fd/62. A second try with this one left me with a single entry for linux (i.e. failsafe and xen were gone, too). So I tried the Expert option Repair Boot Loader. It recreated the default and failsafe entries in menu.lst, but was not able to create initrd. the script complained about not being able to access /dev/sda6 which is the root / partition of my system (xfs containing /boot, too). After that wreckage I decided to try a new installation of beta3. So I have no logs for the above problems. Has anybody similar behaviour? Regards, Andreas -- Andreas Vetter Fakultaet fuer Physik und Astronomie Universitaet Wuerzburg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Andreas Vetter wrote:
Hi,
I updated a x86_64 machine from beta1 to beta3. After the packages were installed I found the machine in a reboot loop. The grub boot loader was not working any longer. So I tried Repair System. The automatic one obviously deleted Windows from menu.lst. Then it threw an error about not being able to access /dev/fd/62. A second try with this one left me with a single entry for linux (i.e. failsafe and xen were gone, too).
So I tried the Expert option Repair Boot Loader. It recreated the default and failsafe entries in menu.lst, but was not able to create initrd. the script complained about not being able to access /dev/sda6 which is the root / partition of my system (xfs containing /boot, too).
After that wreckage I decided to try a new installation of beta3. So I have no logs for the above problems.
Has anybody similar behaviour?
Regards, Andreas\
check out https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=304657#c11 and see if anything rings a bell in your case and if it does, leave them a comment giving as much info as possible. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Sat, 8 Sep 2007, Richard C Creighton wrote:
Andreas Vetter wrote:
Hi,
I updated a x86_64 machine from beta1 to beta3. After the packages were installed I found the machine in a reboot loop. The grub boot loader was not working any longer. So I tried Repair System. The automatic one obviously deleted Windows from menu.lst. Then it threw an error about not being able to access /dev/fd/62. A second try with this one left me with a single entry for linux (i.e. failsafe and xen were gone, too).
So I tried the Expert option Repair Boot Loader. It recreated the default and failsafe entries in menu.lst, but was not able to create initrd. the script complained about not being able to access /dev/sda6 which is the root / partition of my system (xfs containing /boot, too).
After that wreckage I decided to try a new installation of beta3. So I have no logs for the above problems.
Has anybody similar behaviour?
check out https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=304657#c11 and see if anything rings a bell in your case and if it does, leave them a comment giving as much info as possible.
Hm, I don't think this is related to my case. I think the bug in the 10.3 update kernel package is the culprit in that case. Thanks, Andreas -- Andreas Vetter Fakultaet fuer Physik und Astronomie Universitaet Wuerzburg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 08 September 2007 05:46:36 am Andreas Vetter wrote:
On Sat, 8 Sep 2007, Richard C Creighton wrote:
Andreas Vetter wrote:
Hi,
I updated a x86_64 machine from beta1 to beta3. After the packages were installed I found the machine in a reboot loop. The grub boot loader was not working any longer. So I tried Repair System. The automatic one obviously deleted Windows from menu.lst. Then it threw an error about not being able to access /dev/fd/62. A second try with this one left me with a single entry for linux (i.e. failsafe and xen were gone, too).
This is a bug in Repair system.
So I tried the Expert option Repair Boot Loader. It recreated the default and failsafe entries in menu.lst, but was not able to create initrd. the script complained about not being able to access /dev/sda6 which is the root / partition of my system (xfs containing /boot, too).
It acts like xfs driver is missing.
After that wreckage I decided to try a new installation of beta3. So I have no logs for the above problems.
Has anybody similar behaviour?
check out https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=304657#c11 and see if anything rings a bell in your case and if it does, leave them a comment giving as much info as possible.
Hm, I don't think this is related to my case. I think the bug in the 10.3 update kernel package is the culprit in that case.
The primary reason that you needed Repair System is kernel update, but -- Regards, Rajko. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Sat, 8 Sep 2007, Andreas Vetter wrote:
Hi,
I updated a x86_64 machine from beta1 to beta3. After the packages were installed I found the machine in a reboot loop. The grub boot loader was not working any longer. So I tried Repair System. The automatic one obviously deleted Windows from menu.lst. Then it threw an error about not being able to access /dev/fd/62. A second try with this one left me with a single entry for linux (i.e. failsafe and xen were gone, too).
This seems to be the problem reported by Rajko on this list earlier with subject: [opensuse-factory] openSUSE 10.3, kernel update 2.6.22.5-12 doesn't create initrd The online update repo was enabled during the update. This might explain it.
So I tried the Expert option Repair Boot Loader. It recreated the default and failsafe entries in menu.lst, but was not able to create initrd. the script complained about not being able to access /dev/sda6 which is the root / partition of my system (xfs containing /boot, too).
After that wreckage I decided to try a new installation of beta3. So I have no logs for the above problems.
Has anybody similar behaviour?
Regards, Andreas
-- Andreas Vetter Fakultaet fuer Physik und Astronomie Universitaet Wuerzburg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
* Andreas Vetter <vetter@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> [2007-09-08 12:25]:
I updated a x86_64 machine from beta1 to beta3. After the packages were installed I found the machine in a reboot loop. The grub boot loader was not working any longer. So I tried Repair System. The automatic one obviously deleted Windows from menu.lst. Then it threw an error about not being able to access /dev/fd/62. A second try with this one left me with a single entry for linux (i.e. failsafe and xen were gone, too).
Please file a bugreport for such cases. If you didn't do something very special, that's always a bug. Thanks, Bernhard --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Sat, 8 Sep 2007, Bernhard Walle wrote:
* Andreas Vetter <vetter@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> [2007-09-08 12:25]:
I updated a x86_64 machine from beta1 to beta3. After the packages were installed I found the machine in a reboot loop. The grub boot loader was not working any longer. So I tried Repair System. The automatic one obviously deleted Windows from menu.lst. Then it threw an error about not being able to access /dev/fd/62. A second try with this one left me with a single entry for linux (i.e. failsafe and xen were gone, too).
Please file a bugreport for such cases. If you didn't do something very special, that's always a bug.
Sorry, I have no logs. But I'll try with the fresh beta 3 install again. -- Andreas Vetter Fakultaet fuer Physik und Astronomie Universitaet Wuerzburg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Sat, 8 Sep 2007, Andreas Vetter wrote:
On Sat, 8 Sep 2007, Bernhard Walle wrote:
* Andreas Vetter <vetter@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> [2007-09-08 12:25]:
I updated a x86_64 machine from beta1 to beta3. After the packages were installed I found the machine in a reboot loop. The grub boot loader was not working any longer. So I tried Repair System. The automatic one obviously deleted Windows from menu.lst. Then it threw an error about not being able to access /dev/fd/62. A second try with this one left me with a single entry for linux (i.e. failsafe and xen were gone, too).
Please file a bugreport for such cases. If you didn't do something very special, that's always a bug.
Sorry, I have no logs. But I'll try with the fresh beta 3 install again.
I updated another machine from alpha6 to beta3. Grub is damaged such, that the machine is in a reboot loop. What kind of logs are needed? -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen, Andreas Vetter Fakultaet fuer Physik und Astronomie Tel: +49 (0)931 888-5890 Universitaet Wuerzburg Fax: +49 (0)931 888-5508 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Andreas Vetter wrote:
On Sat, 8 Sep 2007, Andreas Vetter wrote:
On Sat, 8 Sep 2007, Bernhard Walle wrote:
* Andreas Vetter <vetter@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> [2007-09-08 12:25]:
I updated a x86_64 machine from beta1 to beta3. After the packages were installed I found the machine in a reboot loop. The grub boot loader was not working any longer. So I tried Repair System. The automatic one obviously deleted Windows from menu.lst. Then it threw an error about not being able to access /dev/fd/62. A second try with this one left me with a single entry for linux (i.e. failsafe and xen were gone, too).
Please file a bugreport for such cases. If you didn't do something very special, that's always a bug.
Sorry, I have no logs. But I'll try with the fresh beta 3 install again.
I updated another machine from alpha6 to beta3. Grub is damaged such, that the machine is in a reboot loop.
What kind of logs are needed?
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=310588 -- Andreas Vetter Fakultaet fuer Physik und Astronomie Universitaet Wuerzburg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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