Bug 105551

Summary:	machine fails to boot after beta 1 -> beta 2 upgrade
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	James Willcox <snorp>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Torsten Duwe <duwe>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Found By:	Other	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description James Willcox 2005-08-18 14:44:29 UTC

I upgraded from beta 1 to beta 2 yesterday, and then rebooted.  I got a grub
menu screen, and hit 'enter' to boot the normal configuration.  After that, I
get a grub Error 18.  This is on a Thinkpad T40p.  I was able to workaround the
issue by splitting my swap partition up (which was at the front of the disk) to
make a /boot partition, and putting stuff there.

Comment 1 Torsten Duwe 2005-08-18 14:58:45 UTC

Look for the "rescue partition" or so item in your BIOS setup. Disable that 
(as you most likely have already scratched that anyways). 
 
These Thikpads are well-known troublemakers.

Comment 2 James Willcox 2005-08-18 15:13:30 UTC

I had already disabled the rescue partition stuff, it did not help.

Comment 3 Torsten Duwe 2005-08-18 15:38:21 UTC

Then the next thing is to provide me with the BIOS disk  
geometry, /etc/grub.conf and fdisk -l output (see Bug #103031) and maybe 
an MBR dump.

Comment 4 Torsten Duwe 2005-09-02 10:12:37 UTC

2 weeks without the info, so I guess it's fixed now.