Bug 154292

Summary:	Installation fails to set up bootmanager for LVM
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Thomas Fehr <fehr>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.0
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Found By:	Other	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	/etc/grub.conf: Did not work /etc/lilo.conf: did not work Output of "hwinfo"

Description Ulrich Windl 2006-03-01 09:03:23 UTC

Preface: This report is similar to bug #103134, but not the same)
When installing using LVM to manage filesystems, YaST's partitioner happily accepts all the settings (BUG), but then the bootloader section reports very unspecifically that it could not set up a default configuration. When entering bootloader configuration, no errors are visible anywhere, and the configuration looks OK (BUG). When accepting any changes, the previous message appears again.
When deciding to ignore the problem (and hope for the best), installation of the bootloader (GRUB) fails. Trying to use LILO instead also fails. Trying to install the bootloader on a floppy also fails. Likewise the option "boot installed system" (from DVD boot) also fails. That's the main bug: All bootloaders fail to get installed.

For GRUB the situation may look like this:
grub> root (/dev/sysVG/boot)

Error 23: Error while parsing number
grub> install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /grub/stage1 d (fd0) /grub/stage2 0x8000 (/dev/sysVG/boot)/grub/menu.lst

Error 12: Invalid device requested
grub> quit

For LILO the situation looks like this:
Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory structure.
    Name change: '/dev/dm-0' -> '/dev/sysVG/boot'
Fatal: Sorry, don't know how to handle device 0xfd00

Comment 1 Ulrich Windl 2006-03-01 09:04:45 UTC

Created attachment 70734 [details]
/etc/grub.conf: Did not work

Comment 2 Ulrich Windl 2006-03-01 09:05:24 UTC

Created attachment 70735 [details]
/etc/lilo.conf: did not work

Comment 3 Ulrich Windl 2006-03-01 09:06:27 UTC

Created attachment 70736 [details]
Output of "hwinfo"

Comment 4 Martin Vidner 2006-03-02 15:45:42 UTC

Please attach the logs: http://en.opensuse.org/Bug_Reporting_FAQ#YaST

Comment 5 Ulrich Windl 2006-03-03 07:26:48 UTC

Sorry, after waiting a day, I decided to re-install Linux with different partitioning. No logs available any more. However, it should be easy to reproduce: Just install with everything on LVM.
As a side note: When reinstalling with new patritioning (created inside Windows/XP), Yast still displayed the first partition belonging to LVM, insisted on removing the volume from LVM, but the function "LVM" refused to activate (I don't remember the words of the error message). To get the things done, I had switched to tty2, filled the first 1000 blocks of the partition with zeros, let YaST re-read the partition table, and things worked fine.

Comment 6 Edith Parzefall 2006-03-07 15:47:14 UTC

-> fehr

Comment 7 Thomas Fehr 2006-03-21 10:35:43 UTC

We do not fix bugs in SL 10.0 any more.