Bugzilla – Bug 154707
ibm intellistation booting problem
Last modified: 2008-04-25 09:26:40 UTC
I have now an IBM Intellistation M Pro (a old dual Xeon 2.4Ghz machine) for testing. As reference I installed 10.0 on it, and it worked fine, without any problems. Beta6, when GRUB is installed to a partition gives the following error: 'No operating system found' If I install GRUB to MBR, it still does not boot: 'GRUB Hard Disk Error'
please attach /var/log/YaST2/* /etc/grub.conf /boot/grub/menu.lst fdisk -l
The machine frooze a couple of time during install, so Yast2 logs might be a bit chaotic... (see bug #154709) As it's well over 5M, I made it available for download at http://www.mkk.szie.hu/~czanik/allinone.tar.gz
I cleaned the MBR by dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda, reinstalled 10.0 and now I have the same problem with 10.0 too. It boots fine, when started with an install CD and "boot from harddrive is choosen". But at least it runs stable...
Petr: Compress the logs using bzip2 (`bzip'-command or `tar bjvf y2logs.tar.bz2 /var/log/YaST' - this will store much more than gzip. Are you sure the bootsector of that disk is OK? Have you tried using another disk?
I'm sure it's OK. I installed XP on it, and it boots fine from the disk, and if I write something to /dev/sda I can read it back without any problem. Error checking the hard drive did not find any trouble. I installed 10.0 again, and I have 'GRUB Hard Disk Error' again. Logs recompressed, now just 3.5M: http://www.mkk.szie.hu/~czanik/aia.tbz
Please always add files using the bugzilla attachment feature, this is more reliable and ensures the persistance of the availability of this data. Please provide the information asked for by Martin in comment #1 and salvage the defective bootsector with `dd if=/dev/sda of=bootsector.bin bs=512 count=1' and also attach it here.
OK. Sorry, but my original logs were rejected by bugzilla, as oversized. I try it again.
Created attachment 71370 [details] fdisk -l
Created attachment 71371 [details] the boot sector
Created attachment 71372 [details] grub.conf
Created attachment 71373 [details] menu.lst
Created attachment 71374 [details] YaST2 logs This is a new install, not what I originally reported, but has exactly the same problem.
Thorsten: I suppose this is a GRUB problem? However if you suspect YaST, assign it back to us.
The working 10.0 configuration would have been interesting. Peter, can you verify that the BIOS agrees with the 4425/255/63 geometry of the disk, and also add `fdisk -l -u` output to a matching `fdisk -l`?
I can't verify the BIOS, at least I could not find anything in the Adaptec SCSI BIOS. czanik@linux:~> cat fdisk-l Disk /dev/sda: 36.4 GB, 36401479680 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4425 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 637 5116671 a5 FreeBSD /dev/sda2 638 768 1052257+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda3 * 769 1160 3148740 83 Linux /dev/sda4 1161 4425 26226112+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 1161 1813 5245191 83 Linux /dev/sda6 1814 2466 5245191 83 Linux /dev/sda7 2467 2597 1052226 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda8 2598 2916 2562336 83 Linux /dev/sda9 2917 2982 530113+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris czanik@linux:~> cat fdisk-lu Disk /dev/sda: 36.4 GB, 36401479680 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4425 cylinders, total 71096640 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 63 10233404 5116671 a5 FreeBSD /dev/sda2 10233405 12337919 1052257+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda3 * 12337920 18635399 3148740 83 Linux /dev/sda4 18635400 71087624 26226112+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 18635463 29125844 5245191 83 Linux /dev/sda6 29125908 39616289 5245191 83 Linux /dev/sda7 39616353 41720804 1052226 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda8 41720868 46845539 2562336 83 Linux /dev/sda9 46845603 47905829 530113+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
I installed Lilo on a friends recommendation (which I have not used for ages), and the machine boots just fine.
FYI, I installed BETA8 on my IBM IntelliStation Mpro and it works fine. But mine has a single IDE boot drive -- not an adaptec SCSI like yours.
I tested 3 different SCSI and SCSI RAID controllers, and they don't work with GRUB. Now I just leave the install CD in, 'boot from HDD' is default and find GRUB successfully, where normal boot does not work...
i have several simple pentium2/3/celeron systems upgraded lately to suse 10.1 from retail suse media. all systems have simple ide/atapi controller, no "fancy" stuff like sata, scsi or the like. on one system i cant boot directly any more, only when i leave the suse 10.1 retail cd/dvd in the drive, and wait for the timeout, it then selects "boot from harddisk" (or similar) and then comes up with the grub loader from the installed/upgraded suse 10.1 from the harddisk. we have a discussion ongoing in the following thread/subthread: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-beta-e/2006-Jun/0058.html thanks for any more hints. regards.
Closing NOREPSONSE, due to missing information. Please retest on openSUSE 11.0 and create a new bug report if the problem still persists.