Bug 147870

Summary: The installer fails/refuses to install bootloader
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Dan Haskell <haskelld>
Component: BasesystemAssignee: Olaf Dabrunz <odabrunz>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: stefan.fent
Version: Beta 2   
Target Milestone: SUSE Linux 10.1   
Hardware: PowerPC-64   
OS: Other   
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Description Dan Haskell 2006-02-02 23:31:08 UTC 
Beta 2 installs on PPC systems, but errors out when trying to configure the boot loader. Here's the text from the alert window:

"An error occurred during boot load installation. Retry boot loader configuration? yes no" 

If you say yes, it gyrates around a bit and then displays the same alert. We have been able to get around this by booting from a SLES9 install on another disk (we copied the kernel and initrd over and edited yaboot.conf on the old OS). FYI, here's the disk partition table from the new OS:

Disk /dev/sdb: 36.4 GB, 36401479680 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4425 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1         157     1261071    6  FAT16
/dev/sdb2             158        4425    34282710    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5             158        2966    22563261   83  Linux
/dev/sdb6            2967        4272    10490413+  83  Linux

Obviously, there's no PReP Boot partition. We have had this problem on two different systems - one was a 550a (which is pre-release hw) and on a 520 (which has been out for ~2 years).

Note - I work for IBM. I'm sure there are "offical" channels this should have gone through, but I don't know what they are. It's a *big* company. ;)
Comment 1 Hendrik Vogelsang 2006-02-03 08:38:03 UTC 
olaf yours?
Comment 2 Olaf Hering 2006-02-03 09:11:21 UTC 
works better in sles10
Comment 3 Dan Haskell 2006-02-03 19:12:39 UTC 
Er, this is sles10. Do you mean beta 3?
Comment 4 Forgotten User ZhJd0F0L3x 2006-02-09 21:59:22 UTC 
the bug is against "SUSE LINUX 10.0" Beta2. If you want to file a bug against SLES, you should state this in the report ;-)
Comment 5 Dan Haskell 2006-02-09 23:06:26 UTC 
Ack! My bad. Sorry.
Comment 6 Torsten Duwe 2006-04-21 15:00:58 UTC 
I strongly recommend you put PPC partitioning on that disk. Linux can cope with stupid DOS/PC-BIOS labels, but PReP's Open Firmware can not, I guess.