Bug 548523

Summary: Update causes GRUB to run in an infinite reboot-loop
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.2 Reporter: Radomír Černoch <radomir.cernoch>
Component: InstallationAssignee: Torsten Duwe <duwe>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Critical    
Priority: P5 - None CC: jengelh, urs.beyerle
Version: RC 1   
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Hardware: i686   
OS: openSUSE 11.2   
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Description Radomír Černoch 2009-10-20 19:20:09 UTC
Created attachment 323318 [details]
Yast logs

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; cs-CZ; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090909 SUSE/3.5.3-3.2 Firefox/3.0.6

I have tried updating 11.1 => 11.2 RC1. After the first reboot, GRUB only writes:

"GRUB Loading Stage1.5"
"GRUB loading..."

and after a second, the machine restarts, which results in an infinite loop. No menu is shown and the machine is unusable unless booting from DVD or USB.

Hardware: ThinkPad T42

I had to repair the machine using openSUSE 11.1 DVD. Strangely reinstalling GRUB with default options from the repair tool did not resolve the problem. In the second attempt "Bootloader location" was set to all "MBR", "Root partition" and "Extended partition". Only after that GRUB started properly.

Reproducible: Didn't try
Comment 1 Stephan Kulow 2009-10-21 14:27:44 UTC
Please see http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs/grub
Comment 2 Jan Engelhardt 2009-11-13 21:15:59 UTC
Seems related to bug #223773.
Comment 3 Urs Beyerle 2009-12-09 13:28:02 UTC
I see the same problem after upgrading from 11.1 to 11.2 on a 

Asus Pundit P4-P5N9300, GeForce 9300, Socket 775

Reinstalling grub from 11.2 does not help.

My workaround:
Installing grub-0.97-156.3.i586 from 11.1 and add "solvable_name: grub" to /etc/zypp/locks.
Comment 4 Torsten Duwe 2010-02-11 16:45:21 UTC
Assumed fixed by latest OBS check-in that builds with known compiler.