Bug 492254 - Repair Installed System unable to boot into existing Linux.
Summary: Repair Installed System unable to boot into existing Linux.
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 450944
Alias: None
Product: openSUSE 11.1
Classification: openSUSE
Component: YaST2 (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: i586 openSUSE 11.1
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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Assignee: Josef Reidinger
QA Contact: Jiri Srain
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Reported: 2009-04-04 08:20 UTC by Hendrik Müller
Modified: 2009-04-14 11:02 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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'sfdisk -d' oputput of harddisk partitions (412 bytes, text/plain)
2009-04-04 08:20 UTC, Hendrik Müller
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Description Hendrik Müller 2009-04-04 08:20:48 UTC
Created attachment 284129 [details]
'sfdisk -d' oputput of harddisk partitions

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Booting installed system from opensuse 11.1 DVD 'repair system' failes.
Here the way how it fails:
 1. boot from opensuse 11.1 instalation dvd
 2. select 'repair installed system' from boot menu
 3. select 'boot installed system' (via expert mode)
 4. Existing system is not booted, but YasT2 returns with error:
       No Linux root partition found.

But trying it from here works:
 1. boot from opensuse 11.1 instalation dvd
 2. select 'installation' from boot menu
 3. After choosing language select 'repair installed system'
 4. select 'boot installed system' (via expert mode)
 5. Installed linux system is booting

what is the difference between both reapir systems? Shouldn't booting work from first one too?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot from opensuse 11.1 instalation dvd
2. select 'repair installed system' from boot menu
3. select 'boot installed system' (via expert mode)
4. Existing system is not booted, but YasT2 returns with error:
       No Linux root partition found.
Actual Results:  
Existing system is not booted, but YasT2 returns with error:
       No Linux root partition found.

Expected Results:  
Existing linus system should be booted.

See attachment for my current harddisk setup. I also saw this issue with just one linux system on a hard disk (i.e. without windows in other partition).
Comment 2 Lukas Ocilka 2009-04-10 08:00:14 UTC
Seems to be a duplicate, repair used directly doesn't work well because it tries to repair/modify the inst-sys (DVD) instead of repairing/modifying the selected system.

Anyway, Repair is jreidinger's.
Comment 3 Josef Reidinger 2009-04-14 11:02:05 UTC
Thanks for report, it is already fixed in svn a will be in next release of yast2-repair

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 450944 ***