Bug 23547

Summary:	6.1 multi system install does not update grub2 boot menu
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Ben McMonagle <westel>
Component:	Release (media or process)	Assignee:	ISO building group <isobuild>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	mageia, mageia, marja11, zen25000
Version:	6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	from "bug" during install

Description Ben McMonagle 2018-09-08 01:46:06 CEST

Description of problem: when installing all desktops in one go into a system that already has multiple systems and partitions, the grub2 menuis not updated. eg, if the new system is installed into "sda9(/) +10 (/home)", at reboot, grub2 menu does not show mageia-6 (on sda9)


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:nearly always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. into a multi system machine with more than 2 existing systems, install 6.1 as a multi desktop installation
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Comment 1 Ben McMonagle 2018-09-08 03:23:54 CEST

Created attachment 10360 [details]
from "bug" during install

I was unable to access the report.bug from the original install from another system, so needed to rerun the install and run "bug" at the end of the install and write to USB.

Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2018-09-08 14:29:07 CEST

(In reply to ben mcmonagle from comment #1)
> Created attachment 10360 [details]
> from "bug" during install
> 
> I was unable to access the report.bug from the original install from another
> system, so needed to rerun the install and run "bug" at the end of the
> install and write to USB.

What exactly do you mean with "unable to access the report.bug from the original install from another system"? 

Could you mount the partition you had installed to (/dev/sda9 for your last install) and see that the filesystem was correctly created, but that root/drakx/report.bug.xz was missing?

Or could you not find the newly installed root partition?

Or are you nearly as forgetful as me, and had you forgotten how to mount the partition at retrieve report.bug.xz from it?

Or was it too corrupted to mount?

Assignee: bugsquad => isobuild
Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: sysadmin-bugs => mageia, marja11, zen25000

Comment 3 Marja Van Waes 2018-09-08 14:29:48 CEST

s/partition at/partition and/

Comment 4 Ben McMonagle 2018-09-08 23:04:53 CEST

(In reply to Marja Van Waes from comment #2)

> 
> Or are you nearly as forgetful as me, and had you forgotten how to mount the
> partition at retrieve report.bug.xz from it?

probably :)

Comment 5 Martin Whitaker 2018-09-21 19:50:54 CEST

I can't see anything in the log to explain why install-grub2 failed to detect the kernel in the newly installed system. But there are a lot of other problems with that install, due to the package conflicts on the 6.1 ISOs.

If you have time Ben, could you test if this also occurs with the netinstall ISO?

CC: (none) => mageia

Comment 6 Ben McMonagle 2018-09-22 09:56:30 CEST

seems ok with netinstall non-free UEFI

Comment 7 Martin Whitaker 2018-09-22 10:42:10 CEST

Thanks Ben. As we've abandoned the CI ISOs, I'll close this.

Resolution: (none) => OLD
Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)
Status: NEW => RESOLVED