https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=392198
User lee_matheson@hotmail.com added comment
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=392198#c23
Lee Matheson changed:
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Resolution| |INVALID
--- Comment #23 from Lee Matheson 2008-06-19 14:01:42 MDT ---
As the initiator, I changed this bug report to "INVALID". And my apologies for
this bug report. This is a PC hardware problem.
My suspicions in Comment #21 proved correct, when I changed out the 80GByte
hard drive for a 40GByte hard drive, and installed openSUSE-11.0 GM on the 40
GByte drive, the problem disappeared. I performed 10 reboots, with no problem
in each of the 10 rebotos. Grub came up and performed correctly, and the kernel
booted properly.
My view now is the MBR in the previous 80GByte hard drive had an "intermittent"
fault that occurred 90% of the time. My guess is the reason openSUSE-10.3
booted ok, is because its code was located in a "healthier" location of the
hard drive. Perhaps the only puzzle is why the hardware health checks of the
hard drive did not pick up anything.
Thank you to the openSUSE developers, for implementing a faster installation
and also retaining the faster reboots on openSUSE-11.0, else this test would
have been unbearable.
If nothing else, I have learned now how to charcterize a hard drive with a
failing MBR.
But I think I wasted far too much of everyone's time, and my sincere apologies
for this.
This BUG report is withdrawn by initiator (or called invalid).
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