Bug 444809

Summary:	grub install failed after upgrad
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1	Reporter:	Lars Müller <lmuelle>
Component:	Bootloader	Assignee:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Critical
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	duwe, forgotten_2Bw2fCSUmf, jreidinger, jsrain
Version:	Factory
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	openSUSE 11.0
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Attachments:	y2logs as created with save_y2logs Archive of /boot/grub

Description Lars Müller 2008-11-13 20:38:10 UTC

Upgraded the system from 11.0 to 11.1 Beta 5 with the Network Install method (http://en.opensuse.org/Network_Install).  After the failed kernel install (see bug #444804) YaST displayed a grub error message:


    GNU GRUB  version 0.97  (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)

 [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.  For the first word, TAB
   lists possible command completions.  Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
   completions of a device/filename. ]
grub> root (hd0,0)
 Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
grub> install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /grub/stage1 d (hd0) /grub/stage2 0x8000 (hd0,0)/grub/menu.lst

Error 15: File not found
grub> quit

Comment 1 Stephan Kulow 2008-11-20 09:57:02 UTC

can you please attach your log files?

Comment 2 Lars Müller 2008-11-20 10:26:51 UTC

Created attachment 253806 [details]
y2logs as created with save_y2logs

Comment 3 Jiri Srain 2008-11-20 14:09:48 UTC

Could you, please, also attach contents of /boot/grub directory? Or, have you indentified which file was missing?

Comment 4 Josef Reidinger 2008-12-02 13:18:28 UTC

should be related to bug 450841

Comment 5 Lars Müller 2008-12-02 14:08:43 UTC

Same error with RC 1.

Comment 6 Lars Müller 2008-12-02 14:11:34 UTC

Created attachment 257270 [details]
Archive of /boot/grub

Comment 7 Jiri Srain 2008-12-02 14:56:35 UTC

I do not see any reason why GRUB fails to install (maybe except known problem with storing long device paths).

Torsten, can you have a look?

Comment 8 Torsten Duwe 2008-12-02 15:42:58 UTC

Where is /dev/sda1 mounted, on / or /boot?

Comment 9 Lars Müller 2008-12-02 17:13:25 UTC

lmuelle@gab:~> mount | grep sda1
/dev/sda1 on / type ext2 (rw,acl)

Comment 10 Torsten Duwe 2008-12-02 17:23:48 UTC

Then your initial description is lacking a "/boot".
Your Logs are not consistent in that respect.
Which one is correct?

Comment 11 Torsten Duwe 2008-12-02 17:24:49 UTC

Please provide a consistent report.

Comment 12 Torsten Duwe 2008-12-02 17:25:04 UTC

Please provide a consistent report.

Comment 13 Lars Müller 2008-12-02 17:38:50 UTC

The initial description was a copy and paste from the error shown by YaST.

And I don't know which information is missing.

/boot is not a separate partition.

Comment 14 Jiri Srain 2008-12-03 09:14:48 UTC

But according to the log in the initial comment, /etc/grub.conf is configured as if there was a separate /boot partition. Since /etc/grub.conf is not modified during update, it must have been that case before the update.

If your /etc/grub.conf was correct before update, installation would have succeeded. Update of bootloader with broken configuration files cannot work (and since there is no bootloader configuration UI during update, they cannot even be fixed to match user's expectation).

Comment 15 Lars Müller 2008-12-03 12:31:35 UTC

Strange as this system was initially installed with YaST and updated from 10.1 till the current state.

Comment 16 Torsten Duwe 2008-12-03 13:21:52 UTC

But can you reproduce this?
Jiri and I strongly doubt so. There must have been some intervention.

Comment 17 Lars Müller 2008-12-03 13:48:56 UTC

I'm not able to reproduce this as this would require to install 10.1 and upgrade to 10.2, ..., 11.1 RC X.  I used a lot of beta releases on this system too.

Therefore I'm happy as long as this doesn't happen happen to other users.