Bug 103761

Summary:	grub installed to a partition
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	peter czanik <peter>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	duwe
Version:	Beta 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Other	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	yast2 logs for grub problem YaST2 logs from beta4

Description peter czanik 2005-08-10 09:12:50 UTC

I installed beta1 on a laptop. After the first CD, when the system was rebooted,
the computer did not start. It turned out on the next try, that for some reason
grub was installed to /dev/hda3 instead of /dev/hda (MBR). I changed it to MBR,
and now it seems to work.
The strange thing is, that my desktop machine has almost the same partitions,
and there GRUB was installed correctly to MBR.

Comment 1 Jiri Srain 2005-08-10 09:24:40 UTC

Could you, please, attath the installation logs (see 
http://www.suse.de/~sh/Bugreporting-faq/index.html#id2518603 for details)

Comment 2 peter czanik 2005-08-10 09:36:51 UTC

Yes, but I'm still installing that machine...

Comment 3 peter czanik 2005-08-10 10:04:25 UTC

Created attachment 45480 [details]
yast2 logs for grub problem

Comment 4 Jiri Srain 2005-08-10 10:40:42 UTC

It was decided to install bootloade by default to boot sector of /boot  
partition. You obviously chaneged it to install to MBR (according to log).  
  
There was no error while installing bootloader. Did you get any arror while 
attempting to boot during installation? Everything seems to have been saved 
correctly.

Comment 5 peter czanik 2005-08-10 10:55:50 UTC

For this second try I did not have any error. But for my first try, when I left
it at /dev/hda3, the notebook did not even recognise, that my hdd is bootable,
and tried to boot from the network. So I reinstalled, and this time, I changed
GRUB to use the MBR.

Comment 6 Jiri Srain 2005-08-10 11:00:54 UTC

OK, so the logs come from the second installation, right?

Comment 7 Jiri Srain 2005-08-10 11:01:22 UTC

And the second installation booted properly if I understand you correctly.

Comment 8 peter czanik 2005-08-10 11:04:21 UTC

Yes, logs are from second install (it's difficult to get information out from an
unbootable system...).

Comment 9 Jiri Srain 2005-08-15 11:32:46 UTC

Sorry, but then I can hardly help you (as I can't determine what was wrong).  
It is quite probable that this bug is a duplicate of another bug (most  
probably 103031). 
 
Sorry, but can't help you (#define WONTFIX CANTFIX)

Comment 10 peter czanik 2005-08-15 11:44:24 UTC

OK, I'm still testing on this machine, with 4G worth of ADSL download :) But
when beta2 comes out, I will reinstall it, and see if it's still there. If yes,
I'll send yast2 logs, and whatever you want by booting from the rescue CD.

Comment 11 peter czanik 2005-09-01 08:03:54 UTC

It's still here in beta4. I will add YaST2 logs. The strange thing is, that when
CD1 is in the drive (like during installation), then "boot from HDD" works, I
get the GRUB menu installed on the HDD. But it's not found, when I boot directly
the HDD.

Comment 12 peter czanik 2005-09-01 08:08:27 UTC

Created attachment 48418 [details]
YaST2 logs from beta4

Comment 13 Jiri Srain 2005-09-01 08:51:31 UTC

This time it is a duplicate of known problem (wrong permission of one of 
binaries). 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 103031 ***