Bug 368721

Summary: Serial ATA replacement
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3 Reporter: John Bester <john.bester>
Component: InstallationAssignee: Jiří Suchomel <jsuchome>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: chrubis
Version: Final   
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Hardware: x86-64   
OS: openSUSE 10.3   
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Description John Bester 2008-03-10 15:22:54 UTC 
I replaced a serial ATA drive that caused a SMART before it crashed, so I was able to clone the disk completely. However, when the serial ATA drive is replaced, the drive ID (and therefore device name) changes, so grub fails to boot the OpenSUSE installation which points to a drive ID that was removed. The "repair" option in the installation crashes as well. In stead it should attempt to connect to the device ID and if it is not possible, it should suggest other bootable partitions. The same holds true for setting up partitions in a specific linux installation (etc/fstab), because once grub installation is fixed, OpenSUSE still does not boot completely, because fstab contains entries that references the previous drive's partitions.
Comment 2 Jiří Suchomel 2008-03-12 19:17:42 UTC 
"repair" option on 10.3 crashes always :-(

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 329702 ***