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| Summary: | Grub fails to build a working menu for other Linux OS | ||
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| Product: | [openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed | Reporter: | Carl Fletcher <caf4926> |
| Component: | Basesystem | Assignee: | E-mail List <bnc-team-screening> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | E-mail List <qa-bugs> |
| Severity: | Major | ||
| Priority: | P5 - None | CC: | arvidjaar, bwiedemann, forgotten_K-uAvjqJ3n, hepet, hloeffler3 |
| Version: | 13.1 Beta 1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86-64 | ||
| OS: | Other | ||
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| Found By: | Community User | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
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12.3 grub.cfg
12.2 grub.cfg rebuild after 12.3 install |
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Created attachment 520986 [details]
12.2 grub.cfg rebuild after 12.3 install
Repaired booting after install of 12.3 by repairing 12.2
Included it's menu for comparison
initrd is missing: linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-17-generic root=UUID=a8fc2c66-21ec-43bd-ac47-0c6bc68e81f6 ro quiet splash $vt_handoff initrd ro Could you please run "grub2-mkconfig -o /dev/null" and attach /var/log/messages during this run? os-prober logs to syslog. At least, I hope they will appear in syslog ... /var/log/messages http://paste.opensuse.org/2802137 Please test: zypper ar obs://home:arvidjaar:bnc:799457/openSUSE_Factory bnc799457 zypper refresh bnc799457 zypper dup -r bnc799457 And retry grub2-mkconfig I notices in the terminal feedback it didn't pick up Mint 14 this time http://paste.opensuse.org/90450708 My guess is it would if I mounted the Mint root Also, just to say, so far I didn't actually test the result by installing grub again for 12.3 Let me know if you want that? (In reply to comment #5) > I notices in the terminal feedback it didn't pick up Mint 14 this time That's correct, it won't pick up entries that were added by (another) os-prober. It assumes they were added by os-prober if entry ends with "(on /dev/XXX"). There was yet another glitch, could you check please. zypper refresh zypper up os-prober (In reply to comment #7) > http://paste.opensuse.org/25963311 Am I right that you have additional OS on /dev/sda5 and this OS is missing in generated menu? This is the same as in bnc#767272: 2013-01-19T16:06:45.940791+00:00 gnome-123 kernel: [ 257.698952] EXT4-fs (sda5): INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem 2013-01-19T16:06:45.940844+00:00 gnome-123 kernel: [ 257.698961] EXT4-fs (sda5): write access unavailable, cannot proceed May I ask you to manually mount and cleanly unmount /dev/sda5 and repeat the test. We need to verify that original bug (incorrect initrd) is indeed fixed. Before remounting - could you check whether grub2-mount is capable of mounting this filesystem: grub2-mount /dev/sda5 /tmp/mnt (In reply to comment #8) > (In reply to comment #7) > > http://paste.opensuse.org/25963311 > > Am I right that you have additional OS on /dev/sda5 and this OS is missing in > generated menu? This is the same as in bnc#767272: > > 2013-01-19T16:06:45.940791+00:00 gnome-123 kernel: [ 257.698952] EXT4-fs > (sda5): INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem > 2013-01-19T16:06:45.940844+00:00 gnome-123 kernel: [ 257.698961] EXT4-fs > (sda5): write access unavailable, cannot proceed > > May I ask you to manually mount and cleanly unmount /dev/sda5 and repeat the > test. We need to verify that original bug (incorrect initrd) is indeed fixed. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 2048 8450047 4224000 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda2 * 8450048 488396799 239973376 5 Extended /dev/sda5 8452096 52606975 22077440 83 Linux /dev/sda6 52609024 97058815 22224896 83 Linux /dev/sda7 97060864 243421183 73180160 83 Linux /dev/sda8 243423232 387958783 72267776 83 Linux /dev/sda9 387960832 488396799 50217984 83 Linux Correct: sda5 is Mint 14 root sda6 is OS 12.2 root sda9 is OS 12.3 Just before we proceed. Can I just mention that the original menu produced by 12.3 at install did have all OS's listed in the Menu. Only 12.3 booted though. I'm struggling slightly with this because when I go su - in the terminal gnome-shell starts running at 50% and no apps will launch. If apps are already open they seem to keep working. So can you just re-confirm how you want me to proceed now. (In reply to comment #10) > Just before we proceed. Can I just mention that the original menu produced by > 12.3 at install did have all OS's listed in the Menu. Only 12.3 booted though. > Well, apparently at this point filesystem was cleanly unmounted. > > So can you just re-confirm how you want me to proceed now. 1. Please test grub2-mount if it works: mkdir /tmp/mnt grbu2-mount /dev/sda5 /tmp/mnt ls -l /tmp/mnt umount /tmp/mnt May be grub2 is still capable of accessing filesystem in this conditions. 2. Try to clean error and re-run grub2-mkconfig mount /dev/sda5 /tmp/mnt umount /tmp/mnt (should now be clean) grub2-mkconfig and verify whether entries from /dev/sda5 are present and you can boot using them. This just the terminal feedback, wasn't sure I did exactly what you wanted..? http://paste.opensuse.org/71667853 Have not tested booting with it yet. Will be tomorrow before I can do that Yes, looks good. Please, let me know when you tested booting. (In reply to comment #4) > Please test: > > zypper ar obs://home:arvidjaar:bnc:799457/openSUSE_Factory bnc799457 > zypper refresh bnc799457 > zypper dup -r bnc799457 > > And retry grub2-mkconfig fixes grub.cfg for me as well (Ubuntu 12.04 on /dev/sda3, Opensuse 12.3 b2 on /dev/sdb4) with grub2 all of my additional operating systems the initrd line reads initrd video I manually change the line to (hdx,msdosx)/boot/initrd-3.x.x.x-desktop(default) to boot saw from Hans and did so the /boot/grub2/grub.cg looks good will reboot and see Worked for me (In reply to comment #13) > Yes, looks good. Please, let me know when you tested booting. Booting failed with the following: 12.2 Invalid filename video1024x800 Mint error invalid filename 'ro' So I made sure I was using the os-prober from bnc799457, I was. I mounted 12.2 root and Mint root Ran grub2-mkconfig Tested and all was good. Just mention, I assume it's the same for everyone. There is no pretty green suse boot splash at this stage OK, submitted SR#149277. Mark as resolved. This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration: This bug (799457) was mentioned in https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/149278 Factory / os-prober *** Bug 799663 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 800042 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Unfortunately, using grub2-mount by default introduces a problem. If there are more than a couple of devices, it can take minutes to complete. On a system with ~ 12 partitions, it takes over 3 minutes to run os-prober when using grub2-mount. On that same system, it takes 10 seconds to run os-prober using kernel mounts. This several minute delay happens every time update-bootloader is run, which is several times during the installation process and when installing updates. It's less severe than that. It's more like: 10 seconds for kernel mounts 41 seconds for a modified grub2-mount that handles -t <fstype> 61 seconds for an unmodified grub2-mount Here's an even better case for disabling it by default: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=701814 That report also mentions the (real) possibility that even read-only mounts will cause journal replays to occur. If the file system is mounted somewhere else, it will corrupt it. The use of grub2-mount is a "true" read-only mount, but then we're stuck with the delays. |
Created attachment 520985 [details] 12.3 grub.cfg Using Gnome Live CD _64 Proper install to HD with other OS's (Mint, openSUSE 12.2) Neither Mint 14 or openSUSE 12.2 would boot from the menu built by 12.3 Grub 12.3 itself boots fine So what I have done is. Made a copy of the original menu produced by 12.3 I'll attach it here I repaired grub by chroot to 12.2 and rebuilt grub there. It picked up 12.3 and it works, as you would expect. I'll attach the menu built by 12.2 too for comparison. Now to what happened when you tried booting with the menu built by 12.3 My bad, I didn't take notes. But it complained IIRC about video modes.