Bug 104566 - grub-install not run (or fails) during upgrade from SUSE 9.3 pro
Summary: grub-install not run (or fails) during upgrade from SUSE 9.3 pro
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 103031
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 1
Hardware: x86 SUSE Other
: P5 - None : Blocker
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Assignee: E-mail List
QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf
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Reported: 2005-08-13 11:47 UTC by Peter Nixon
Modified: 2005-08-13 20:25 UTC (History)
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Description Peter Nixon 2005-08-13 11:47:56 UTC 
After upgrading a SUSE 9.3 Pro from the SUSE 10 Beta 1 CD1 the installation  
program reboots the machine. The machine fails to boot with "Operating  
System not found" message. This is due to grub not being correctly  
updated. The recovery procedure is: 
 
* Boot from CD1 
* Select "Rescue System" from the boot menu 
* Pick a keyboard map when it asks 
* Login as "root" 
* Type "mkdir suntel" 
* Type "fdisk -l /dev/hda" (or /dev/sda etc) to list your partition table 
* Mount the correct "Linux" root partition which in my case is /dev/hda3 to  
the suntel directory with "mount /dev/hda3 suntel" 
* type "chroot suntel" 
* type "mount /proc" 
* type "grub-install /dev/hda" (or /dev/sda or whatever your boot hard disk  
is) 
* type "umount /proc" 
* type "exit" 
* type "umount suntel" 
* eject CD1 from your drive 
* type "reboot" 
 
Your system should not boot correctly into linux and continue the rest of  
the installations (CDs 2-4)
Comment 1 Richard Bos 2005-08-13 20:25:32 UTC 
Nice to see the recovery procedure. 
 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 103031 ***