Bugzilla – Bug 147447
Impossible boot system after installation
Last modified: 2006-03-01 21:15:58 UTC
Hardware : motherboard Asus A8NE with Nvidia Force 4 - Processor AMD Athlon 3000 3 sata disk (1 with data; 2 with linux ; 3 with winXP ) During first steps of installation warning message : < you have 2 disk in RAID configuration etc...>(I don't have RAID) I proceed with installation, everything seem OK but when I reboot the system hang : black screen with word GRUB , nothing else. The same problem with SUSE10.0 With FEDORA4 / Mandriva2005 everything run very well. Bug in the Kernel ? Bug in Nvidia driver? Bug in bootloader ? Bug in Yast ?
Please attach the y2logs. Since your system doesn't boot, boot from CD and start the recovery system. Then mount your harddisk and attach the y2logs (<mountpoint>/var/log/YaST2/*) to this bugreport. You can also try chroot <mountpoint> and then run grub-install /dev/hda (replace /dev/hda with the disk where the bootloader should go). Any error messages?
Created attachment 66255 [details] y2logs I have booted from CD. The system seems run well. In attached you find /log/YaST2. I'll send also 3 images : 1° is the warning message when I open starting configuration in YaST control center 2° is the bootloader configuration 3° is the "grub-install" screenshot Some other informations ? THANK
Created attachment 66256 [details] screenshot of warning message 2° attachment
Created attachment 66257 [details] bootloader configuration 3° attachment
Created attachment 66258 [details] screenshot of "grub-install"
Please don't forget to change the bug status to ASSIGNED after providing the needed information - otherwise the developers will never work on your bug. BTW: Please don't send attachments as mails unless asked explicitely - I'm not a SUSE developer and therefore I'm not able to fix this bug - the mails you sent me are quite useless ;-) BTW2: Are you able to boot now?
Augusto: Please attach messages and screenshots in English language, as we have about nobody speaking Italian around here. Please attach the output of `hwinfo --disk' and the file /var/log/boot.msg. Is it possible that your drives are connected to a RAID-Controller?
Created attachment 66607 [details] hwinfo.txt
Created attachment 66608 [details] boot.msg
Here you find -Hwinfo -Boot.msg I was not able to change language , so I give you a translation of the screenshoot when opening bootloader in Control Center : " ERROR The system has at least 1 disk with RAID configuration; It is presented from Bios like RAID. These disks are part of RAID : /dev/sda /dev/sdb Kernel linux 2.6 does not support it" My comment : The chipset Nvidia on motherboard has a RAID controller but it runs only in windows , so I have disabled it in BIOS. Regarding Kernel 2.6.... , in Fedora 4 and Mandriva2005 it works well. Perhaps Suse10 gets a wrong image of Raid controller and initrid writes a bad file ? Thanks ciao
Comment on attachment 66608 [details] boot.msg Augusto, "first attachment" and "second attachment" are not very good descriptions ;-) Please use more descriptive descriptions ;-) and set the file type manually - autodetection seems to be not very good...
Augusto: What does lspci say? And what does `hwinfo --storage-ctrl' say? I still think your disks are attached to a RAID controller. With this matter, you probably should wait for beta4 and retry this.
Sorry if I do a little bit of confusion but I am inexpert and new of bugzilla rules.I'll try to do better . Now I send you the file you ask me "lspci" and "hwinfo_storage_ctrl"
Created attachment 66906 [details] output of lspci
Created attachment 66908 [details] output of shwinfo --storage-ctrl
OK so... the problem itself is an invalid GRUB installation/configuration, right? I'm reassigning this to Olaf. Apparently the bootloader module was confused about the disk configuration here - I'm not sure if the SATA controller CK804 is a RAID-controller.
The setup of the disks seems to be really weird, according to the image in comment #5 Also, The error message from YaST believing there is a RAID confuses me. Why is there a y2log_tool_lilo file, if grub is installed? Torsten, can you please have a look at this?
Indeed the message about RAID is confusing. Can we get "fdisk -l" output? Don't use grub-install, unless you know what you're doing. Did you do what it said, check if the device.map is correct?
I have tryed beta4 with the same problem. So I have changed phisically the HD position on motherboard and I've setted the boot partition of all the systems on the HD where is linux.( Before bootpartition was on HD of XP) Then I tried again beta4 : I did not have the warning message during the installation ( you have RAID ..... ) everything looked fine , the system started but I had an other type of error :Impossible find partiton sdb6..... At the end I've tryed Suse 10.0 ( that did not run before ) and everything now is OK . The system runs correctly with Suse too!! I think that the bug connected at false RAID congiguration depends to something wrong on hardwer, I do not Know what . Thank for your work.