Bug 492254

Summary: Repair Installed System unable to boot into existing Linux.
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1 Reporter: Hendrik Müller <poolbarde>
Component: YaST2Assignee: Josef Reidinger <jreidinger>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: poolbarde
Version: Final   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i586   
OS: openSUSE 11.1   
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Attachments: 'sfdisk -d' oputput of harddisk partitions

Description Hendrik Müller 2009-04-04 08:20:48 UTC
Created attachment 284129 [details]
'sfdisk -d' oputput of harddisk partitions

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Booting installed system from opensuse 11.1 DVD 'repair system' failes.
Here the way how it fails:
 1. boot from opensuse 11.1 instalation dvd
 2. select 'repair installed system' from boot menu
 3. select 'boot installed system' (via expert mode)
 4. Existing system is not booted, but YasT2 returns with error:
       No Linux root partition found.

But trying it from here works:
 1. boot from opensuse 11.1 instalation dvd
 2. select 'installation' from boot menu
 3. After choosing language select 'repair installed system'
 4. select 'boot installed system' (via expert mode)
 5. Installed linux system is booting

what is the difference between both reapir systems? Shouldn't booting work from first one too?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot from opensuse 11.1 instalation dvd
2. select 'repair installed system' from boot menu
3. select 'boot installed system' (via expert mode)
4. Existing system is not booted, but YasT2 returns with error:
       No Linux root partition found.
Actual Results:  
Existing system is not booted, but YasT2 returns with error:
       No Linux root partition found.

Expected Results:  
Existing linus system should be booted.

See attachment for my current harddisk setup. I also saw this issue with just one linux system on a hard disk (i.e. without windows in other partition).
Comment 2 Lukas Ocilka 2009-04-10 08:00:14 UTC
Seems to be a duplicate, repair used directly doesn't work well because it tries to repair/modify the inst-sys (DVD) instead of repairing/modifying the selected system.

Anyway, Repair is jreidinger's.
Comment 3 Josef Reidinger 2009-04-14 11:02:05 UTC
Thanks for report, it is already fixed in svn a will be in next release of yast2-repair

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 450944 ***