Bug 450172

Summary:	GRUB setup fails in new openSUSE installation; Operating system not found.
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1	Reporter:	Martin Konopka <martin.konopka>
Component:	Bootloader	Assignee:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Critical
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	forgotten_hCFFy7JqgP, forgotten_Xh41Ao4q6j, jreidinger
Version:	RC 1	Flags:	coolo: SHIP_STOPPER+
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86
OS:	SUSE Other
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Found By:	Community User	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Martin Konopka 2008-11-28 20:20:42 UTC

my machine: a 32-bit notebook Fujitsu-Siemens AMILO Pro V3205

Partitions on my machine before installation:

-a windows NTFS partition /dev/sda1 (with an ubuntu installation within it)
-openSUSE 11.1 beta5 partitions:
/dev/sda5         mounted to swap
/dev/sda6  (ext3) mounted to /
/dev/sda7  (ext3) mounted to /home

Boot loader (GRUB) with openSUSE as default.

Now what happened:
As usually, I am trying to do a new installation of openSUSE on the openSUSE partition, now installing x86 RC1 from DVD and Addon Lang CD media. I (as always) opted to format the sda5 and sda6 partitions and to leave sda7 (with user's data) untouched.

The only essential difference with my several previous successful openSUSE 11.1 beta X installations (on the same partition) was that now I have not configured network during the installation. 

Other difference is that now I have chosen KDE 3.5 (while previously, with beta5, it installed KDE 4.1 although I had opted 3.5; with beta4 I had KDE 4.1 intentionally).

After successful installation of packages a Yast window opened with messages as follows:

grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2/ --force-lba (hd0,1) (hd0,5)
Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage2" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,1)"... failed (this is not fatal)
Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,5)"... failed (this is not fatal)
Running "Install --force-lba --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0,1) /boot/grub/stage2 p /boot/grub/menu.lst"... failed

Error 22: No such partition
grub> quit

I stress that I have successfully performed openSUSE 11.1 beta4 and beta5 using the identical partitions setup and options what to format and what to not format.

After rebooting my notebook I can just read:

Error No operating system
Operating system not found   
[:-(]

Comment 1 Forgotten User hCFFy7JqgP 2008-11-29 13:59:48 UTC

Different machine, different partitioning, similar problem.

Brand new Dell laptop with Vista Business. Installed 11.1 Beta 3 (or 4, not sure) did work (well, at least Partitioning and Grub installation worked).

Now I receive pretty much the same error message (just different number for (hd0,3) instead of (hd0,1), etc.)

HERE IS WHAT IS NEW:

Tried the repair system of the 11.1RC1 Disc: 
1) It claims to have successfully repaired the Bootloader.
2) Then immediately reports that the booloader is defect.
3) Same dialogue as before, claiming to have successfully repaired the bootloader.
4) Finishes.
5) Reboot shows that there is no bootloader whatsoever. :(

Comment 2 Forgotten User hCFFy7JqgP 2008-11-29 14:04:09 UTC

PS: Ooops, I forgot to mention that I use the _64bit_ version!
The error message upon reboot is from the bios.

Comment 3 Forgotten User Xh41Ao4q6j 2008-12-01 02:15:35 UTC

It looks like duplicate of bug #450091 .

Comment 4 Josef Reidinger 2008-12-01 08:48:12 UTC

(In reply to comment #3 from Rajko Matovic)
> It looks like duplicate of bug #450091 .
> 
yes ;)


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 450091 ***