Bug 116698 - unbootable rc2
Summary: unbootable rc2
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Update Problems (show other bugs)
Version: RC 2
Hardware: Other All
: P5 - None : Normal
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Assignee: Torsten Duwe
QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf
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Reported: 2005-09-13 07:16 UTC by Dirk Mueller
Modified: 2005-10-06 17:05 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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y2logRPM.gz (36.15 KB, application/x-gzip)
2005-09-13 07:32 UTC, Dirk Mueller 		Details
y2log.gz (21.13 KB, application/x-gzip)
2005-09-13 07:32 UTC, Dirk Mueller 		Details
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Description Dirk Mueller 2005-09-13 07:16:39 UTC 
after updating from rc1 to rc2 via y2pmsh / update / solve / commit I had an 
unbootable system. apparently grub-install wasn't run, I got a grub stage 2 
loading error.  
 
probably this has something to do with the non-mbr -> mbr switch, not sure. 
its oldboy.suse.de
Comment 1 Klaus Kämpf 2005-09-13 07:26:53 UTC 
Please attach logs.  
  
Updating via y2pmsh is not officially supported. However, it should work  
nonetheless. Downgrading to 'normal'
Comment 2 Klaus Kämpf 2005-09-13 07:27:37 UTC 
Ludwig, does y2pmsh write logs somewhere ?
Comment 3 Dirk Mueller 2005-09-13 07:32:01 UTC 
Created attachment 49725 [details]
y2logRPM.gz
Comment 4 Dirk Mueller 2005-09-13 07:32:22 UTC 
Created attachment 49726 [details]
y2log.gz
Comment 5 Ludwig Nussel 2005-09-13 14:02:06 UTC 
y2pmsh just updates rpm packages so I'd expect the same to happen if you just 
rpm -U --force grub.rpm. Therefore I'd say it's a grub bug. The grub package 
does something with the stage2 file in it's post install script.
Comment 6 Jiri Srain 2005-09-26 11:02:42 UTC 
Torsten, how does the GRUB package handle update of itself? It should not 
break booting of the system IMHO...
Comment 7 Torsten Duwe 2005-09-26 11:12:57 UTC 
%post 
[...] 
[ -e /etc/grub.conf ] && /usr/sbin/grub --batch < /etc/grub.conf 
 
So whatever was written in grub.conf. The whole %post script has proven very 
robust so far. Shall I close as invalid (Dirk, I second your assumption that 
non-MBR back to evil MBR install is not handled properly), or reassign to yast 
people? 
 
Or have rpm %post semantics changed once more :-/