Bugzilla – Bug 527547
GRUB bootloader configuration fails without error informations during installation of openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 4
Last modified: 2009-08-10 16:07:40 UTC
Created attachment 309903 [details] YAST-logs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090714 SUSE/3.5.1-3.1 Firefox/3.5.1 GRUB bootloader configuration fails during installation of openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 4. The error-message-window which pops up is empty. Retrying doesn't help. Yast-logs attached. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Attach the logs, please.
They are already there, can't you see them ;)
Ah, sorry, missed them. GRUB itself return non-zero exit code (35584) without actually typing anything to stdout, resp. stderr. Could you, please, attach /etc/grub.conf and /boot/grub/device.map so that we can check whether they are correct?
Created attachment 310793 [details] grub.conf
Created attachment 310794 [details] device.map
I hit this bug while installing 11.2m4 on an old IBM Thinkpad A20m. I tried a lot of different bootloader options trying to see if something in the configuration was the problem. I found that if I, after getting the bug, told it to install without a bootloader, I could complete the install. At first reboot the computer started up with the options I last tried to install grub with. It looks like it installs the bootloader, then comes back with that blank error message. It wouldn't continue until I told it to skip bootloader installation.
device.map looks good, but the grub.conf attachment seems to contain a malformed .zip archive. Could you, please, check it and upload again?
Created attachment 311021 [details] grub.conf
Looks good. Could you, in addition, try running (as root, be aware that this tries to reinstall bootloader) cat /etc/grub.conf | /usr/sbin/grub --batch --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map and check whether it creates any output? BTW: According to the configuration file, you do not have any primary partition designated for bootloader. This is highly unrecommended and not supported by us (even though in most of the cases it normally works)
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> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 --force-lba (hd0,1) (hd0,7) Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/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 (hd0,7)"... 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 "... succeeded Done. grub> quit Segmentation fault dmesg shows: [ 480.021652] grub[6570]: segfault at 1 ip 00000001 sp bffac204 error 14 in grub[8048000+23000]
don't know if it is related, but GRUB should not segfault (maybe it somehow caused the output to be lost). Torsten, please, check the segfault...