[opensuse] update mess
While attempting to update 12.1 to 12.3, I've gotten into a situation where I can no longer boot. To describe where I am now: Grub menu shows 12.3 (Windows has been lost, but I'm not really concerned about that). If I try to boot this, it returns "Error 22: partition not found." I assume this refers to the location for root, specified in the boot line for the kernel? I know that that partition is still on the disk and readable, since I have checked from the rescue function on the installation disk. The grub boot line is (assuming I have retyped it correctly): kernel (hd0,4)/vmlinuz-3.7.10-1.1-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-id/raid/pdc_djiegecc_part7 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/raid/pdc_djiegecc_part6 splash=silent quiet showopts Brief history: I initially attempted an upgrade, but ran into space problems in the /boot partition. So I went for a clean install. It failed to format the /boot, /root and /swap partitions, for reasons I cannot tell. I can provides details, if someone will advise me what is relevant. I'm no expert, though I've been running Opensuse since 9.1 (unix end-user before that), and thus can do some command line stuff. Upgrades and installations have always gone smoothly before. Many thanks! -- Fr David Ousley Church of Saint Michael the Archangel 6611 Ardleigh St. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19119 215-247-1092 www.ordinariatephiladelphia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 2013-11-26 14:00, Fr David Ousley wrote:
Brief history: I initially attempted an upgrade, but ran into space problems in the /boot partition. So I went for a clean install. It failed to format the /boot, /root and /swap partitions, for reasons I cannot tell. I can provides details, if someone will advise me what is relevant.
At least the output of "fdisk -l" -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar)
On 2013-11-26 14:00, Fr David Ousley wrote:
kernel (hd0,4)/vmlinuz-3.7.10-1.1-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-id/raid/pdc_djiegecc_part7 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/raid/pdc_djiegecc_part6 splash=silent quiet showopts
I did not notice before that raid was involved. In that case, View this thread: <http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php?t=492403> -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Content-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1311262010350.12194@Telcontar.valinor> On Tuesday, 2013-11-26 at 14:41 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2013-11-26 14:00, Fr David Ousley wrote:
kernel (hd0,4)/vmlinuz-3.7.10-1.1-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-id/raid/pdc_djiegecc_part7 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/raid/pdc_djiegecc_part6 splash=silent quiet showopts
I did not notice before that raid was involved. In that case, View this thread: <http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php?t=492403>
You replied in private. Please reply to the list. I'm copying your post here so that others can comment. El 2013-11-26 a las 09:02 -0500, Fr David Ousley escribió:
On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 08:41:11 -0500, Carlos E. R. <> wrote:
I did not notice before that raid was involved. In that case, View this thread: <http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php?t=492403>
This thread seems to deal with LVM (which is not involved here -- the partitions are ex4), and software RAID -- my set up is hardware (BIOS). Unless I'm missing something (entirely p;ossible!)
It is about LVM on top of raid, and it is the raid that is the problem. It also points to a pair of bugzillas you should read. Another similar thread: View this thread: http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php?t=491264
fdisk -l output:
Disk /dev/sda: 30.0 GB, 30016659456 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3649 cylinders, total 58626288 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x10ce7af1
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 206847 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2 206848 58621951 29207552 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Disk /dev/sdb: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 cylinders, total 2930277168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x10ce7ae9
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 2048 1007823757 503910855 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sdb2 * 1007824896 2930145279 961160192 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sdb5 1007826944 1007966207 69632 83 Linux /dev/sdb6 1007968256 1012174847 2103296 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sdb7 1012176896 1054121983 20972544 83 Linux /dev/sdb8 1054124032 2930126847 938001408 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdc: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 cylinders, total 2930277168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x10ce7ae9
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 2048 1007823757 503910855 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sdc2 * 1007824896 2930145279 961160192 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sdc5 1007826944 1007966207 69632 83 Linux /dev/sdc6 1007968256 1012174847 2103296 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sdc7 1012176896 1054121983 20972544 83 Linux /dev/sdc8 1054124032 2930126847 938001408 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sde: 2000.4 GB, 2000398933504 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total 3907029167 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x909173e1
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sde1 2048 3907029163 1953513558 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Disk /dev/sdf: 32.0 GB, 32015679488 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3892 cylinders, total 62530624 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdf1 32 62530623 31265296 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
I notice that no partition is marked as autoraid type, thus the initial booter might not activate it soon enough. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlKU8okACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VWuQCdEqkNFSSa5BnHtQPs5NoEhzLD uC8Ani+y0JI9InUahFtIiSY8395aJ+SP =LCn8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 В Tue, 26 Nov 2013 20:12:01 +0100 (CET) "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> пишет:
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On Tuesday, 2013-11-26 at 14:41 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2013-11-26 14:00, Fr David Ousley wrote:
kernel (hd0,4)/vmlinuz-3.7.10-1.1-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-id/raid/pdc_djiegecc_part7 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/raid/pdc_djiegecc_part6 splash=silent quiet showopts
I did not notice before that raid was involved. In that case, View this thread: <http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php?t=492403>
You replied in private. Please reply to the list. I'm copying your post here so that others can comment.
El 2013-11-26 a las 09:02 -0500, Fr David Ousley escribió:
On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 08:41:11 -0500, Carlos E. R. <> wrote:
I did not notice before that raid was involved. In that case, View this thread: <http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php?t=492403>
This thread seems to deal with LVM (which is not involved here -- the partitions are ex4), and software RAID -- my set up is hardware (BIOS). Unless I'm missing something (entirely p;ossible!)
It is about LVM on top of raid, and it is the raid that is the problem.
What makes you think so? Even if this is raid, error comes from grub which happens way before anything described in above thread.
It also points to a pair of bugzillas you should read.
Another similar thread:
View this thread: http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php?t=491264
fdisk -l output:
Disk /dev/sda: 30.0 GB, 30016659456 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3649 cylinders, total 58626288 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x10ce7af1
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 206847 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2 206848 58621951 29207552 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
If what is /dev/sda in OS is indeed hd0 in grub it perfectly explains why partition 5 is not found during boot ...
I notice that no partition is marked as autoraid type, thus the initial booter might not activate it soon enough.
This is fake raid which has nothing to do with Linux MD (and it is assembled using dmraid). Now I do expect problems if kernel is loaded as mdadm has priority over dmraid by default and there was at least one report that this caused failure during boot. But again, this all happens after kernel is booted - OP is not as far. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlKU9XsACgkQR6LMutpd94xq2wCfTUvGYjoPMpgQ6MfNPpGQ9dM3 /84AoKFrJr281sr+WHgXEWZPHnpYEmOw =hWdc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- N�����r��y隊Z)z{.�ﮞ˛���m�)z{.��+�: �{Zr�az�'z��j)h���Ǿ� ޮ�^�ˬz��
If what is /dev/sda in OS is indeed hd0 in grub it perfectly explains why partition 5 is not found during boot ...
Picking up on this observation, I altered the grub boot line to (hd1,4), and lo and behold, it booted. So I think I am in business! Grub was looking at the wrong disk. Thanks to one and all. You guys are a lifesaver. -- Fr David Ousley Church of Saint Michael the Archangel 6611 Ardleigh St. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19119 215-247-1092 www.ordinariatephiladelphia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 11/26/2013 03:00 PM, Fr David Ousley wrote:
The grub boot line is (assuming I have retyped it correctly):
kernel (hd0,4)/vmlinuz-3.7.10-1.1-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-id/raid/pdc_djiegecc_part7 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/raid/pdc_djiegecc_part6 splash=silent quiet showopts
- recently had boot probs : solved by getting backup of old file : /boot/grub/menu.lst ............... after editing the menu.lst to insert the name of the new kernel and new initrd then, the oS 13.1 new system booted ok .......... regards -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
В Tue, 26 Nov 2013 08:00:07 -0500 "Fr David Ousley" <davidousley@verizon.net> пишет:
Grub menu shows 12.3 (Windows has been lost, but I'm not really concerned about that). If I try to boot this, it returns "Error 22: partition not found." I assume this refers to the location for root, specified in the boot line for the kernel?
No. It refers to *grub* file reference. boot line for kernel is irrelevant here.
kernel (hd0,4)/vmlinuz-3.7.10-1.1-desktop
If this is full menu entry, (hd0,4) does not exist. Otherwise please show full entry without any omissions.
root=/dev/disk/by-id/raid/pdc_djiegecc_part7 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/raid/pdc_djiegecc_part6 splash=silent quiet showopts
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