384136 – Computer reboots instead of loading the grub boot loader

Bug 384136 - Computer reboots instead of loading the grub boot loader

Summary: Computer reboots instead of loading the grub boot loader

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	openSUSE 11.0
Classification:	openSUSE
Component:	Installation (show other bugs)
Version:	Beta 1
Hardware:	64bit Other

Priority:	P5 - None Severity: Major with 1 vote (vote)
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Assignee:	Jozef Uhliarik
QA Contact:	Jiri Srain

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Reported:	2008-04-26 18:28 UTC by Andras Mantia
Modified:	2008-07-07 15:00 UTC (History)
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Grub files (885 bytes, application/x-compressed-tar) 2008-04-26 18:34 UTC, Andras Mantia	Details
Yast logs (5.83 MB, application/x-compressed-tar) 2008-05-07 18:33 UTC, Andras Mantia	Details
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Description Andras Mantia 2008-04-26 18:28:22 UTC

After upgrading from 10.3 to 11.0 (and getting through the hops I already reported), the system fails to start. Instead of getting the grub boot menu, it kept rebooting itself.

Comment 1 Andras Mantia 2008-04-26 18:31:52 UTC

Tried to fix the bootloader both with rescue disc, repair system, yast and manually (modifying device.map, menu.lst), unfortunately it did not help.
I attach the files I had after the first reboot and the ones that work right now, after a new install (not upgrade) of beta1.

Comment 2 Andras Mantia 2008-04-26 18:34:09 UTC

Created attachment 210696 [details]
Grub files

The .orig files are the ones I got after getting into the system using the rescue disc.

Comment 3 Jiri Srain 2008-05-06 15:56:45 UTC

Could you also provide /etc/grub.conf (original as well as after update)? This is the one which sets how GRUB should be installed. Looking at the attached files, I don't see anything suspicious...

Comment 4 Jozef Uhliarik 2008-05-06 16:15:49 UTC

Could you also attach YaST logs please?

Comment 5 Andras Mantia 2008-05-07 18:33:17 UTC

Created attachment 213273 [details]
Yast logs

Comment 6 Andras Mantia 2008-05-07 18:34:33 UTC

Unforttunately my grub.conf.old file contains the same things as grub.conf, probably because I tried to fix the problem from yast.
The current content is:
setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0,0) (hd0,0)
quit

Comment 7 Jozef Uhliarik 2008-07-07 15:00:13 UTC

It seems that yast2-bootloader didn't recognize MBR and it proposed only activating /boot partition.(It should propose write generic code to MBR) It is fixed in version 2.17.1.