Bug 768554

Summary:	Installation fails due to failure during initrd creation
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 12.2	Reporter:	dante bly <blade2445>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Critical
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i386
OS:	openSUSE 12.2
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Description dante bly 2012-06-23 15:34:06 UTC

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Crashed during installation. Can't include logs because don't have access to operation system. The error was:

"An error occurred during initrd creation."

Some relevant messages are as follows:

Root device: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi HTS543...
Features: acpi kms block usb resume.userspace resume.kernel
Pearl-Boolloader: 2012-06-23 09:49:17 ERROR: Core::ReadFiles: Failed to open /boot/grub2/device.map
Can't use an undefined value as a HASH reference at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.14.2/Bootloader/Core/GRUB2.pm.line 1023
There was an error generating the initrd(2)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install opensuse 12.2 beta 1 on acer aspire laptop.
2.Use entire hard drive for install.
3.
Actual Results:  
Initrd crashed during installation after software was 93% installed.

Expected Results:  
Not crashed.

Acer Aspire 4530 laptop

Comment 1 dante bly 2012-06-23 15:43:21 UTC

Forgot to add that after I press "OK", I get the following:

sh: /usr/sbin/grub2-mkconfig: No such file or directory. 

In then asks if I want to retry boot loader configuration.

Comment 2 Steffen Winterfeldt 2012-06-25 12:01:42 UTC

known issue, already fixed

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 765164 ***