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Bugzilla – Full Text Bug Listing |
| Summary: | Grub reboot loop after booting WinXP dual boot | ||
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| Product: | [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 | Reporter: | Gareth Young <g.young> |
| Component: | Installation | Assignee: | Torsten Duwe <duwe> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf> |
| Severity: | Normal | ||
| Priority: | P5 - None | CC: | duwe, locilka, lslezak, suse-beta |
| Version: | RC 1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86 | ||
| OS: | SUSE Other | ||
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| Found By: | Other | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
| Attachments: | YaST setup logs | ||
Please send /etc/grub.conf as well. (In reply to comment #1) > Please send /etc/grub.conf as well. /etc/grub.conf setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0,5) (hd0,5) setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0) (hd0,5) quit Could you, please, attach also YaST logs? http://www.opensuse.org/Bug_Reporting_FAQ#YaST Thanks Created attachment 49569 [details]
YaST setup logs
YaST logs attached as requested.
Regards,
Gareth.
maybe grub maintainer could help... I suspect this maybe the same problem, maybe it will help ..... http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/4896 Gareth Torsten, could you, please, have a look at this bug? Not sure if the following is relevant. I tryed backing up the mbr and restoring it via dd to see if the mbr was altered by Windows when it booted using the following commands but this had no effect. Starting with a working grub menu. dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/mbrbackup bs=512 count=1 Then booted into WindowsXP to break the Grub menu which it did and performed the following. Boot into rescue mode and mount / into /mnt dd if=/mnt/tmp/mbrbackup of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 (I think these commands are correct for backing up and restoring the mbr) Rebooted and the Grub menu was still broke and stuck in its infinate loop. Resorted the grub menu by booting into rescue mode and performing the following. grub>root (hd0,5) grub>setup (hd0) This then restored the grub menu and I could boot into openSUSE, if I then booted back into Windows it would break again. Regards, Gareth. Torsten, please take care of it if it is grub problem. If you find that grub config is written wrongly, than it might be jsrain's. The underlying problem should be fixed with grub-0.97-3 It seems the problem still exists in 10.1 beta - see the discussion "Strange problem" in opensuse-factory... http://lists.opensuse.org/archive/opensuse-factory/2006-Jan/0159.html and following mails I can see no new information in this mail thread, besides the hint it may be some "virus protection", which I guess is mandatory these days for the program loader from Redmont. Some of these even seem to know lilo, but not yet grub. The original problem _was_ fixed in 0.97-3, so just because there's the same symptom again doesn't mean this bug reappeared. As good practice, never install into the MBR unless you absolutely have to. If this happens with stage1 in a partition, please open a new bug. There's nothing I can do about windoze programs damaging the boot loader. |
After installing OpenSUSE 10 RC1 on my Latitude D810 the laptop will boot into OpenSUSE with no problems as many times as I like. If I then boot into Windows XP which loads fine and reboot Grub will get stuck in a loop. The message that is displayed for a brief second before it reboots is "GRUB Loading Stage 1.5". I have booted Windows XP off the CD into rescue mode and performed the fixmbr option which restored the mbr and Windows booted up ok and there was no Grub menu. I then booted from the OpenSUSE CD 1 and gone into rescue mode and re-installed Grub manually which restored the Grub bootloader and OpenSUSE then booted fine. If I then select the option to boot Windows again from the Grub bootloader it will boot ok but then after rebooting Grub will be back in a loop. I have had this problem using Suse 9.2, Suse 9.3 and now OpenSuse. I have also had the problem on a Latitude C810 and now D810. Grub is installed into the MBR not the Boot Sector of the Boot Partition. Windows version is : Windows XP Pro SP2 with all current hotfixes. Regards, Gareth. Here's my menu.lst # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sat Sep 10 09:12:03 UTC 2005 color white/blue black/light-gray default 0 timeout 8 gfxmenu (hd0,5)/boot/message ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title SUSE LINUX 10.0 root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6 vga=0x374 selinux=0 resume=/dev/sda5 splash=silent showopts initrd /boot/initrd ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows### title Windows chainloader (hd0,1)+1 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Failsafe -- SUSE LINUX 10.0 root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume selinux=0 nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3 dhcppc3:~ # fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 11 88326 de Dell Utility /dev/sda2 * 12 1923 15358140 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda3 1924 7022 40957717+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda4 7023 9729 21743977+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 7023 7153 1052226 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 7154 9729 20691688+ 83 Linux