http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=548600
User koenig@linux.de added comment
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=548600#c5
Harald Koenig
/dev/sda1 * 1 52967 425457396 5 Extended
You're purposely asking for trouble here.
unfortuneately it's not that easy :-( [and since when does GRUB in MBR care about the acticve-partition flag... ?!?] ok, now it looks like this: # /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x4d15b664 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 52967 425457396 5 Extended /dev/sda2 52968 54273 10490445 83 Linux /dev/sda3 54274 55579 10490445 83 Linux /dev/sda4 55580 60801 41945715 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda5 1 132 1060227 83 Linux /dev/sda6 * 133 264 1060258+ 83 Linux /dev/sda7 265 918 5253223+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda8 919 40082 314584798+ 8e Linux LVM /dev/sda9 40083 52967 103498731 83 Linux better? not really.... so lets try all possible compbinations: using 11.2 grub-install on 11.2 root/boot grub fails/reboots 11.2 grub-install on 11.1 root/boot works! 11.1 grub-install on 11.2 root/boot grub fails/reboots too! 11.1 grub-install on 11.1 root/boot still works (puh;) so to me it looks like it's the contents of /dev/sda6 (boot2 for 11.2) ?! in "fail/reboot mode" grub displays GRUB loading stage 1.5 GRUB loading, please wait ... and ~1 second later the screen goes blank and reboot starts over I've compared the *stage* files in /boot/grub/ and /usr/lib/grub/ and only the file "stage2" differs like this (which is similar to the 11.1 installation where changes in stage2 go from byte 497-550) : # cmp -l /usr/lib/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage2 523 377 4 537 142 147 538 157 162 539 157 165 540 164 142 542 147 155 543 162 145 544 165 156 545 142 165 546 57 56 547 155 154 548 145 163 549 156 164 550 165 0 668 116 66 669 77 25 673 234 204 674 360 306 685 354 240 any more ideas what to test/replace/... ? any grub hooks to get more verbose output and not immediately blank/reboot ? the end of sda6 (boot for 11.2) ends at byte 2171473920 which is slightly above 2 GB -- any chance that there might be a 2GB limit for some broken BIOS stuff while loading stage2 ? I could exchange contents of sda5/sda6 for a test if necessary (but takes more time:( thanks! -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.