Bug 450841

Summary: bootloader: grub does not find stage1
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1 Reporter: Andreas Jaeger <aj>
Component: InstallationAssignee: Kay Sievers <kasievers>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Critical    
Priority: P5 - None CC: jreidinger
Version: RC 2   
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Hardware: Other   
OS: Other   
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Attachments: screenshot
yast log files -both from / and /mnt

Description Andreas Jaeger 2008-12-02 11:03:02 UTC
I used openSUSE-11.1-RC2-DVD-x86_64-Build0003 to update my machine from Beta5 to RC2 and got an error during writing of the bootloader
Comment 1 Andreas Jaeger 2008-12-02 11:03:58 UTC
Created attachment 257209 [details]
screenshot
Comment 2 Andreas Jaeger 2008-12-02 11:04:30 UTC
Created attachment 257210 [details]
yast log files -both from / and /mnt
Comment 3 Josef Reidinger 2008-12-02 13:15:38 UTC
OK, reason is simple. Sollution is hard.
Reason - you have as hd0 disk /dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_SP2504C_S09QJ1ML514321
In fstab it is / is /dev/sda2
But udevadm info -q name -n /dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_SP2504C_S09QJ1ML514321 return /dev/sdb....so if you say that stage1 is on (hd0,1)/boot/grub/stage1 it find it on /dev/sdb2 which of course doesn't contain it.
I reassign to maintainer of udevadm to find where is problem with udevadm (why switch from /dev/sda in inst-sys to /dev/sdb in chroot).
Comment 4 Andreas Jaeger 2008-12-02 13:28:09 UTC
That might be a change from Beta5 where it ordered the disks in the wrong way - RC1 finally has it right.

I'm fine with closing this as INVALID but leave this to you.
Comment 5 Kay Sievers 2008-12-03 01:14:19 UTC
I would need:
  ls -l /sys/class/block /dev/sd* /dev/hd* /dev/disk/by-id/
and
  a "tar" of the files in /dev/.udev/
of the sytem while if fails, if we suspect a problem with udevadm info output.
Comment 6 Andreas Jaeger 2008-12-03 07:51:33 UTC
I cannot give the information anymore - but if this happens again, I'll do.
Comment 7 Stephan Kulow 2008-12-05 11:41:10 UTC
reopen if you find it again