Bug#487612: Problem with boot after installation due to partitioning error
On Monday 23 June 2008, Tom R wrote:
> Comments/Problems:
> There was apparently some problem with the formatting of the new root
> (/) partition. I assigned it 6.0 GB of space and the partitioner
> stated that it used 6.0 GB of space. The install worked great, but
> system would not boot. Grub reported Error 2.
Grub error 2 is "disk not found" which leads me to suspect that you were
hit by the first issue listed in the errata [1] and that /dev/hda changed
to /dev/sda or vice versa. Seeing that you have both a scsi and ide
controller, that could explain it. Not 100% sure here though.
> Since the machine had other available Linux systems (openSUSE 10.2 and
> SuSE 9.3) I tried fsck on the new partion. Fsck reported no errors. I
> mounted the new partition to the openSUSE 10.2 system and backed up the
> files onto another partition using kdar. I unmounted and reformatted
> the existing partition using Yast. Yast reported the partition size as
> 5.5 GB.
I suspect the size difference is just due to using MB versus MiB.
Cheers,
FJP
[1] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata
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