Bugzilla – Bug 106213
GRUB installed in the wrong disk
Last modified: 2005-08-24 10:51:40 UTC
I have a PC with two hard disks: an EIDE(hda1) and a SATA(sda1) with SuSE 9.3 installed. I wanted to install SuSE 10b2 in the hda drive and mantain the SuSE 9.3 in the other disk. I enetered this information in the OS installer. I chose the automatic KDE installation. The system hanged on reboot trying to load GRUB. I changed the booting order of the hard drives (first the hda1 then the sda1) and then it worked. This could be a potential source of problems for lots of people.
Please provide YaST2 logs of installation and hwinfo output, see: http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Bug_Reporting_FAQ#YaST
Created attachment 47274 [details] Requested hwinfotxt file
Created attachment 47277 [details] requested YaST2 logs
How did you create the hwinfo output? During installation (after switching to 2nd console), or in installed system? According to the hwinfo, /dev/sda is the 1st (boot) disk, but according to YaST logs, /dev/hda is the boot disk. Can you confirm that you created hwinfo withing installed system? Then I'm afraid we can't do anything about it (if BIOS of your computer provides incorrect information) and you have to fix the disks order manually.
The are systems out there where the disk order depends on whether you boot from CD or disk. Nothing we can do about this, then.
OK. #define WONTFIX CANTFIX.