Bug 106213

Summary:	GRUB installed in the wrong disk
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Santiago M. Olaizola <yolaizola>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	snwint
Version:	Beta 2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	SuSE Pro 9.3
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Found By:	Other	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	Requested hwinfotxt file requested YaST2 logs

Description Santiago M. Olaizola 2005-08-22 15:53:11 UTC

I have a PC with two hard disks: an EIDE(hda1) and a SATA(sda1) with SuSE 9.3 
installed. I wanted to install SuSE 10b2 in the hda drive and mantain the SuSE 
9.3 in the other disk. I enetered this information in the OS installer. I 
chose the automatic KDE installation. The system hanged on reboot trying to 
load GRUB. I changed the booting order of the hard drives (first the hda1 then 
the sda1) and then it worked. This could be a potential source of problems for 
lots of people.

Comment 1 Arvin Schnell 2005-08-23 07:34:28 UTC

Please provide YaST2 logs of installation and hwinfo output, see:
http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Bug_Reporting_FAQ#YaST

Comment 2 Santiago M. Olaizola 2005-08-23 18:22:31 UTC

Created attachment 47274 [details]
Requested hwinfotxt file

Comment 3 Santiago M. Olaizola 2005-08-23 18:33:12 UTC

Created attachment 47277 [details]
requested  YaST2 logs

Comment 4 Jiri Srain 2005-08-24 07:45:52 UTC

How did you create the hwinfo output? During installation (after switching to 
2nd console), or in installed system? 
 
According to the hwinfo, /dev/sda is the 1st (boot) disk, but according to 
YaST logs, /dev/hda is the boot disk. Can you confirm that you created hwinfo 
withing installed system? Then I'm afraid we can't do anything about it (if 
BIOS of your computer provides incorrect information) and you have to fix the 
disks order manually.

Comment 5 Steffen Winterfeldt 2005-08-24 08:55:54 UTC

The are systems out there where the disk order depends on whether 
you boot from CD or disk. Nothing we can do about this, then.

Comment 6 Jiri Srain 2005-08-24 10:51:40 UTC

OK. #define WONTFIX CANTFIX.