Bug 17885 - reboot of a wrong installation after an update
Summary: reboot of a wrong installation after an update
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.3
Hardware: alpha
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Matt Wilson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-09-26 21:39 UTC by Michal Jaegermann
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-10-19 16:46:35 UTC
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Description Michal Jaegermann 2000-09-26 21:39:59 UTC
After updating an installation with a root at /dev/sdb8 anaconda
automatically reboots a machine but into a "default" installation
on /dev/sda2.  Minor but annoying.

  Michal
  michal

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2000-09-29 15:30:32 UTC
Could you give some more details on the setup of your machine?

As I understand, you had a bootable partition on /dev/hda2. Then you installed
to /dev/hda8, and when
the installer created the LILO configuration file, it put both hda2 and hda8 in
the setup, and made hda2 the
default, not hda8?


Comment 2 Michael Fulbright 2000-09-29 18:44:10 UTC
Ignore my previous comments - this is on the Alpha!

Comment 3 Brock Organ 2000-10-17 15:51:51 UTC
hmmm ... I am unable to reproduce this problem ... after installing onto more
than one partition for a given drive, booting from that drive always boots the
last partition installed for me ... are there any other details/conditions under
which this occurs for you ...?

Comment 4 Michal Jaegermann 2000-10-17 18:00:24 UTC
What can I say?  I only reported what I have seen.  It is possible that
anaconda got confused by the fact that I installed with a root partition
"deep" into /dev/sdb while on reboot it found my "main" installation
on /dev/sda, i.e. on another disk earlier in the chain and even on /dev/sdb
this was not the only installation.

I do not think that my rig is that normal and anybody with a setup similar
to mine would know what to do with a confused anaconda. :-)  If this is
not an "obvious" problem then I would not spent too much time and effort
on this really minor imperfection.  It is up to you, of course.

Comment 5 Brock Organ 2000-10-17 20:48:54 UTC
we were unable to see the same behavior using generic hardware in our test lab
(that certainly doesn't mean your behavior didn't occur! :) ) ... this makes
locating and fixing the problem harder ... :)

what type of machine and what level of firmware did you see this on ...?

Comment 6 Michal Jaegermann 2000-10-17 21:45:13 UTC
This happened when I was installing on my test UX. For firmware it is
using ArcsBios (do not remember now version, but there was not a big
variety of these) from a defunct Deskstation.  It boots, obviously, via Milo.

At this moment it has IBM DDRS-39130D on /dev/sda, IBM DDRS-34560D on /dev/sdb,
IBM-DJNA-370910 (ATA) on /dev/hda and a SCSI CD (Toshiba XM-6201TA).  Various
more or less standard independent installations here and there.  Definitely
not a garden variety system. :)

If it is not easy reproduce then I really think that this is that kind of
a loose end you bother with when you do not have better things to do.


Comment 7 Brock Organ 2000-10-19 16:46:29 UTC
ok, we'll resolve this issue and work on other stuff ... :)

please reopen if this issue occurs with a SRM based machine ... thanks for the
report!


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