Bug 104604 - Reboot-loop after first stage of installation
Summary: Reboot-loop after first stage of installation
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 1
Hardware: Other All
: P5 - None : Major
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Torsten Duwe
QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf
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Reported: 2005-08-14 14:34 UTC by Christian Boltz
Modified: 2005-12-28 21:42 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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YaST2 logs from repair system (61.35 KB, application/x-gzip)
2005-08-14 14:35 UTC, Christian Boltz 		Details
YaST2 logs from installed system (336.51 KB, application/x-gzip)
2005-08-15 20:36 UTC, Christian Boltz 		Details
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Description Christian Boltz 2005-08-14 14:34:36 UTC 
I entered a reboot-loop after the first stage of installation (10.0 beta1). 
 
The last message I see is "grub loading stage2" - then my laptop reboots. 
 
Even the repair system on DVD could not fix the problem :-( 
 
 
(In between, I got my system booting again by running grub-install manually.)
Comment 1 Christian Boltz 2005-08-14 14:35:33 UTC 
Created attachment 45984 [details]
YaST2 logs from repair system
Comment 2 Jiri Srain 2005-08-15 11:36:06 UTC 
Would it be possible to get the logs from the installed system? During repair, 
once the target system gets mounted (to /mnt), grab /mnt/var/log/YaST2/*, 
hopefully I can learn what was wrong from there.
Comment 3 Jiri Srain 2005-08-15 11:38:40 UTC 
Torsten, any clue?
Comment 4 Christian Boltz 2005-08-15 20:36:27 UTC 
Created attachment 46101 [details]
YaST2 logs from installed system
Comment 5 Jiri Srain 2005-08-16 06:42:06 UTC 
Hmm, according to the log, there was no error while installing GRUB. 
 
Torsten?
Comment 6 Torsten Duwe 2005-08-16 10:14:22 UTC 
What happens if you remove or comment out the "gfxmenu" line 
in the installed system's /boot/grub/menu.lst ?
Comment 7 Christian Boltz 2005-08-18 22:23:40 UTC 
Since I used grub from 9.3, I was even unsure if I could reproduce the 
problem. However, I "succeed" - all I need to do is running 
grub-install /dev/hda in 10.0 beta1 (which shows succecc, BTW). 
 
> What happens if you remove or comment out the "gfxmenu" line  
> in the installed system's /boot/grub/menu.lst ? 
 
No change - I see the same reboot loop :-( 
I also tested with menu.lst from 9.3 - reboot loop again :-( 
 
For now, I run grub-install /dev/hda from 9.3 again to make my system booting 
_once_ ;-)
Comment 8 László Attila Tóth 2005-08-19 14:29:15 UTC 
My grub shows exactly the same symptoms, but my /boot directory is on XFS, as in
bug #105483. Also I have to use lilo.
Comment 9 Christian Boltz 2005-08-28 16:17:38 UTC 
Grub works in beta3 on my laptop.  
 
    
@ László Attila Tóth: What about your system? Does grub boot with beta3 
correctly?
Comment 10 Torsten Duwe 2005-08-30 06:56:53 UTC 
So I assume this fixed.
Comment 11 Christian Boltz 2005-12-28 21:42:02 UTC 
Just to let you know: works as expected now :-)