Bug 144279

Summary: system fail to boot after install grub-0.97-2.1
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Alain Renaud <arenaud>
Component: InstallationAssignee: Torsten Duwe <duwe>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: jomarqua
Version: unspecified   
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Hardware: i586   
OS: Other   
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Description Alain Renaud 2006-01-20 08:16:22 UTC 
I have a dell D600 laptop that have been working fine with Suse 10.0 
but during the YOU procees Yesterday my grub version 0.96-6 was 
upgraded to 0.97-2.1

After that rebooting the system failed systematicly. 
The stage1 seem to work but when the system was trying to load 
the xfs_stage1_5 it failed

The only solution I found was to boot from the 10.0 CD copy the CD /usr/lib/grub/* into the /boot FS and run grub-install... 
I would think there is something wrong with the xfs_stage1_5 

here is some of my system config.
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3             8.9G  4.1G  4.8G  47% /
tmpfs                 252M   12K  252M   1% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1             101M  6.8M   94M   7% /boot
/dev/hda7              17G  5.8G   11G  35% /home

# parted /dev/hda print
Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0kB - 40GB
Disk label type: msdos
Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system  Flags
1       32kB    110MB   110MB   primary   xfs          type=83
2       110MB   6345MB  6235MB  primary   ntfs         boot, type=07
3       6345MB  16GB    9500MB  primary   xfs          type=83
4       16GB    40GB    24GB    extended               type=05
5       16GB    21GB    5250MB  logical   ntfs         type=07
6       21GB    22GB    1024MB  logical   linux-swap   type=82
7       22GB    40GB    18GB    logical   xfs          type=83


Thanks.
Comment 1 John Marquart 2006-01-25 05:59:58 UTC 
I have the exact same problem on a x86_64 (AMD) laptop.

I am also booting from CDRom - and am about to back-rev to the 0.96-6 version of grub.

During boot - i get binary gibberish - then a locked screen.  

I am using ext3 - not xfs.   My partitions look like:
lappy:/media/SU1000_001/suse/x86_64 # fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40060403712 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4870 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        1147     9213246    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2            1148        1209      498015   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda3            1210        2384     9438187+  83  Linux
/dev/hda4            2385        4870    19968795    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5            2385        3559     9438156    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda6            3560        4870    10530576   83  Linux
Comment 2 Torsten Duwe 2006-04-21 15:50:13 UTC 
Alain, can you paste `ls -l /boot` from that machine? Maybe to bug #122547?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 122547 ***