Bug 154292 - Installation fails to set up bootmanager for LVM
Summary: Installation fails to set up bootmanager for LVM
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: i686 SuSE Linux 10.0
: P5 - None : Major
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Assignee: Thomas Fehr
QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf
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Reported: 2006-03-01 09:03 UTC by Ulrich Windl
Modified: 2006-03-21 10:35 UTC (History)
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/etc/grub.conf: Did not work (136 bytes, text/plain)
2006-03-01 09:04 UTC, Ulrich Windl 		Details
/etc/lilo.conf: did not work (1.11 KB, text/plain)
2006-03-01 09:05 UTC, Ulrich Windl 		Details
Output of "hwinfo" (166.52 KB, text/plain)
2006-03-01 09:06 UTC, Ulrich Windl 		Details
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Description Ulrich Windl 2006-03-01 09:03:23 UTC 
Preface: This report is similar to bug #103134, but not the same)
When installing using LVM to manage filesystems, YaST's partitioner happily accepts all the settings (BUG), but then the bootloader section reports very unspecifically that it could not set up a default configuration. When entering bootloader configuration, no errors are visible anywhere, and the configuration looks OK (BUG). When accepting any changes, the previous message appears again.
When deciding to ignore the problem (and hope for the best), installation of the bootloader (GRUB) fails. Trying to use LILO instead also fails. Trying to install the bootloader on a floppy also fails. Likewise the option "boot installed system" (from DVD boot) also fails. That's the main bug: All bootloaders fail to get installed.

For GRUB the situation may look like this:
grub> root (/dev/sysVG/boot)

Error 23: Error while parsing number
grub> install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /grub/stage1 d (fd0) /grub/stage2 0x8000 (/dev/sysVG/boot)/grub/menu.lst

Error 12: Invalid device requested
grub> quit

For LILO the situation looks like this:
Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory structure.
    Name change: '/dev/dm-0' -> '/dev/sysVG/boot'
Fatal: Sorry, don't know how to handle device 0xfd00
Comment 1 Ulrich Windl 2006-03-01 09:04:45 UTC 
Created attachment 70734 [details]
/etc/grub.conf: Did not work
Comment 2 Ulrich Windl 2006-03-01 09:05:24 UTC 
Created attachment 70735 [details]
/etc/lilo.conf: did not work
Comment 3 Ulrich Windl 2006-03-01 09:06:27 UTC 
Created attachment 70736 [details]
Output of "hwinfo"
Comment 4 Martin Vidner 2006-03-02 15:45:42 UTC 
Please attach the logs: http://en.opensuse.org/Bug_Reporting_FAQ#YaST
Comment 5 Ulrich Windl 2006-03-03 07:26:48 UTC 
Sorry, after waiting a day, I decided to re-install Linux with different partitioning. No logs available any more. However, it should be easy to reproduce: Just install with everything on LVM.
As a side note: When reinstalling with new patritioning (created inside Windows/XP), Yast still displayed the first partition belonging to LVM, insisted on removing the volume from LVM, but the function "LVM" refused to activate (I don't remember the words of the error message). To get the things done, I had switched to tty2, filled the first 1000 blocks of the partition with zeros, let YaST re-read the partition table, and things worked fine.
Comment 6 Edith Parzefall 2006-03-07 15:47:14 UTC 
-> fehr
Comment 7 Thomas Fehr 2006-03-21 10:35:43 UTC 
We do not fix bugs in SL 10.0 any more.