Bug 645215

Summary: Error 24: Attempt to access block outside partition after F13-F14B upgrade
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Andrew Luecke <auzy83>
Component: grubAssignee: Peter Jones <pjones>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 14CC: jonathan, lkundrak, madhu.chinakonda, pjones
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Description Andrew Luecke 2010-10-21 02:33:46 UTC
Description of problem:
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After upgrading from Fedora13-Fedora 14 Beta (KDE Spin) on 20/10/10 (using preupgrade-cli), grub is unable to boot to vmlinuz-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.x86_64, throwing a "Error 24: Attempt to access block outside partition" error. However, the older "vmlinuz-2.6.34.7-56.fc13.x86_64" successfully starts booting WITHOUT the error, and F13 had no issues either.No changes were ever manually made to grub configuration. 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
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Kernel: vmlinuz-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.x86_64 (CAUSES THE ERROR)  
vmlinuz-2.6.34.7-56.fc13.x86_64 WORKED FINE!!
Grub: 1:0.97-66.fc14 (x86_64)
F13 did not have this problem...

How reproducible:
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Unknown. Have not tested.

Steps to Reproduce:
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Initial setup:
1. Install F13 to EXT3
2. preupgrade-cli to F14
3. Install F14
4. Reboot

After upgrade:
1. Boot system into grub normally
2. Select F14 kernel (vmlinuz-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.x86_64) + Enter/Return key
  
Actual results:
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1. Error 24: Attempt to access block outside partition
2. From then on, users are forced to cry themselves to sleep. 

Expected results:
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1. Fedora 14 kernel boots fine. All is fine with the world. 

Additional info:
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This is on a GA-EP45-DS4P motherboard with 3x SATA drives, and the MBR is on /dev/sdc. There is 1 partition on /dev/sdc (EXT4), which is a Samsung HD154UI

Further info is attached

Comment 1 Andrew Luecke 2010-10-21 04:18:29 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 645216 ***