Grub2 can not load SuSe10

[aixilin]

I installed the Ubuntu 11 alongside of the SUSE10. Now I can get into the Ubuntu, but the suse10 is failed to loaded.
The boot infor script file shows:



Boot Info Script 0.60 from 17 May 2011


============================= Boot Info Summary: ===============================

=> Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks at sector 1 of
the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location and looks
for (,msdos5)/boot/grub on this drive.

sda1: __________________________________________________ ________________________

File system: swap
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:

sda2: __________________________________________________ ________________________

File system: reiserfs
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Welcome to SUSE LINUX 10.0
(i586) - Kernel ().
Boot files: /etc/fstab

sda3: __________________________________________________ ________________________

File system: reiserfs
Boot sector type: Grub Legacy
Boot sector info: Grub Legacy (v0.96) is installed in the boot sector
of sda3 and looks at sector 23085406 of the same hard
drive for the stage2 file. A stage2 file is at this
location on /dev/sda. Stage2 looks on partition #3
for /boot/grub/stage2.
Operating System: Welcome to SUSE LINUX 10.0
(i586) - Kernel ().
Boot files: /boot/grub/menu.lst /etc/fstab

sda4: __________________________________________________ ________________________

File system: Extended Partition
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:

sda5: __________________________________________________ ________________________

File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Ubuntu 11.04
Boot files: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab /boot/grub/core.img

sda6: __________________________________________________ ________________________

File system: swap
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:

============================ Drive/Partition Info: =============================

Drive: sda __________________________________________________ ___________________

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders, total 156301488 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Partition Boot Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors Id System

/dev/sda1 63 2,104,514 2,104,452 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 2,104,515 23,085,404 20,980,890 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 * 23,085,405 84,527,103 61,441,699 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 84,529,150 156,301,311 71,772,162 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 84,529,152 154,204,159 69,675,008 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 154,206,208 156,301,311 2,095,104 82 Linux swap / Solaris


"blkid" output: __________________________________________________ ______________

Device UUID TYPE LABEL

/dev/sda1 swap
/dev/sda2 f1d92cf2-4c02-40ac-a0e8-25891fa18edc reiserfs
/dev/sda3 e63908da-ef76-4c96-8820-8975eeeaf7e4 reiserfs
/dev/sda5 ebe56bd7-ff91-4ec5-8c2c-1d2330db3337 ext4
/dev/sda6 5bf81900-1e0a-4020-8fd3-3c9a49c6dcb1 swap

================================ Mount points: =================================

Device Mount_Point Type Options

/dev/sda5 / ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro,commit=0)


=============================== sda2/etc/fstab: ================================

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/dev/sda2 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/sda3 /home ext2 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/sda1 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/dvdram /media/dvdram subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocha rset=utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs noauto,fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

=================== sda2: Location of files loaded by Grub: ====================

GiB - GB File Fragment(s)

?? = ?? boot/grub/stage2 1

=========================== sda3/boot/grub/menu.lst: ===========================

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Wed Jun 7 20:43:01 UTC 2006

color white/blue black/light-gray
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,2)/boot/message

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title SUSE LINUX 10.0
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 vga=0x31a selinux=0 resume=/dev/sda1 splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy###
title Floppy
chainloader (fd0)+1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- SUSE LINUX 10.0
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume selinux=0 nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3
initrd /boot/initrd
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

=============================== sda3/etc/fstab: ================================

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/dev/sda3 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/sda1 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/sda2 /data1 auto noauto,user 0 0
/dev/dvdram /media/dvdram subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocha rset=utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs noauto,fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0
none /subdomain subdomainfs noauto 0 0
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

=================== sda3: Location of files loaded by Grub: ====================

GiB - GB File Fragment(s)

?? = ?? boot/grub/menu.lst 0
?? = ?? boot/grub/stage2 1
?? = ?? boot/initrd 3
?? = ?? boot/initrd-2.6.13-15-smp 3
?? = ?? boot/vmlinuz 1
?? = ?? boot/vmlinuz-2.6.13-15-smp 1

=========================== sda5/boot/grub/grub.cfg: ===========================

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then
set have_grubenv=true
load_env
fi
set default="0"
if [ "${prev_saved_entry}" ]; then
set saved_entry="${prev_saved_entry}"
save_env saved_entry
set prev_saved_entry=
save_env prev_saved_entry
set boot_once=true
fi

function savedefault {
if [ -z "${boot_once}" ]; then
saved_entry="${chosen}"
save_env saved_entry
fi
}

function recordfail {
set recordfail=1
if [ -n "${have_grubenv}" ]; then if [ -z "${boot_once}" ]; then save_env recordfail; fi; fi
}

function load_video {
insmod vbe
insmod vga
insmod video_bochs
insmod video_cirrus
}

insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(/dev/sda,msdos5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root ebe56bd7-ff91-4ec5-8c2c-1d2330db3337
if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then
set gfxmode=auto
load_video
insmod gfxterm
fi
terminal_output gfxterm
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(/dev/sda,msdos5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root ebe56bd7-ff91-4ec5-8c2c-1d2330db3337
set locale_dir=($root)/boot/grub/locale
set lang=en_US
insmod gettext
if [ "${recordfail}" = 1 ]; then
set timeout=-1
else
set timeout=10
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set menu_color_normal=white/black
set menu_color_highlight=black/light-gray
if background_color 44,0,30; then
clear
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
if [ ${recordfail} != 1 ]; then
if [ -e ${prefix}/gfxblacklist.txt ]; then
if hwmatch ${prefix}/gfxblacklist.txt 3; then
if [ ${match} = 0 ]; then
set linux_gfx_mode=keep
else
set linux_gfx_mode=text
fi
else
set linux_gfx_mode=text
fi
else
set linux_gfx_mode=keep
fi
else
set linux_gfx_mode=text
fi
export linux_gfx_mode
if [ "$linux_gfx_mode" != "text" ]; then load_video; fi
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.38-8-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
set gfxpayload=$linux_gfx_mode
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(/dev/sda,msdos5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root ebe56bd7-ff91-4ec5-8c2c-1d2330db3337
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=ebe56bd7-ff91-4ec5-8c2c-1d2330db3337 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic
}
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.38-8-generic (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
set gfxpayload=$linux_gfx_mode
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(/dev/sda,msdos5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root ebe56bd7-ff91-4ec5-8c2c-1d2330db3337
echo 'Loading Linux 2.6.38-8-generic ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=ebe56bd7-ff91-4ec5-8c2c-1d2330db3337 ro single
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###
### END /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(/dev/sda,msdos5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root ebe56bd7-ff91-4ec5-8c2c-1d2330db3337
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin
}
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)" {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(/dev/sda,msdos5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root ebe56bd7-ff91-4ec5-8c2c-1d2330db3337
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin console=ttyS0,115200n8
}
### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
menuentry "SUSE LINUX 10.0 (on /dev/sda3)" --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
insmod part_msdos
insmod reiserfs
set root='(/dev/sda,msdos3)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root e63908da-ef76-4c96-8820-8975eeeaf7e4
linux /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 vga=0x31a selinux=0 resume=/dev/sda1 splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd
}
menuentry "Failsafe -- SUSE LINUX 10.0 (on /dev/sda3)" --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
insmod part_msdos
insmod reiserfs
set root='(/dev/sda,msdos3)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root e63908da-ef76-4c96-8820-8975eeeaf7e4
linux /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume selinux=0 nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3
initrd /boot/initrd
}
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.


### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
if [ -f $prefix/custom.cfg ]; then
source $prefix/custom.cfg;
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
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=============================== sda6/etc/fstab: ================================

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=ebe56bd7-ff91-4ec5-8c2c-1d2330db3337 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=5bf81900-1e0a-4020-8fd3-3c9a49c6dcb1 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

=================== sda5: Location of files loaded by Grub: ====================

GiB - GB File Fragment(s)

49.050613403 = 52.667695104 boot/grub/core.img 1
44.643005371 = 47.935062016 boot/grub/grub.cfg 1
45.572265625 = 48.932847616 boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic 2
49.049942017 = 52.666974208 boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic 1
45.572265625 = 48.932847616 initrd.img 2
49.049942017 = 52.666974208 vmlinuz 1

=============================== StdErr Messages: ===============================

unlzma: Decoder error


Anyone knows: what's wrong with these settings??

[Rubi1200]

Have you tried running
sudo update-grub in Ubuntu?

[aixilin]

Have you tried running
sudo update-grub in Ubuntu?

Yes, I tried, it shows:

Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Found SUSE LINUX 10.0 (i586) OSS on /dev/sda2
Found SUSE LINUX 10.0 (i586) on /dev/sda3
done

[Rubi1200]

Which partition are you trying to boot, sda2 or sda3? Which one fails to load? Try them both.

[aixilin]

Which partition are you trying to boot, sda2 or sda3? Which one fails to load? Try them both.

sda2 is the suse safe mode; sda3 is the suse10 boot drive.
I have tried both, neither are working.
There were only black screen, then afterwards, it went back to the grub
window.

Because the Suse10 uses the Grub legacy, whereas the Ubuntu11 uses the Grub 2. Is that a problem?
In the end of the boot info file, it shows one error:"unlzma: Decoder error". What does that mean?

[Rubi1200]

The decoder error is nothing to worry about; it has something to do with the way the script parses information.

I see that legacy-GRUB is installed to the PBR of sda2 whereas GRUB2 is in the MBR of sda.

Try reinstalling GRUB and see if that helps:

from within the Ubuntu install, run these commands:


sudo grub-install --recheck /dev/sda


sudo update-grub

Then try to boot again.

[oldfred]

I am not familiar with SuSe, but it looks like the os-prober fixed the boot partition number to boot from sda3 but not the root partition number in the linux line. Old grub is one number different from grub2. And SuSe has sda1 as swap.


menuentry "SUSE LINUX 10.0 (on /dev/sda3)" --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
insmod part_msdos
insmod reiserfs
set root='(/dev/sda,msdos3)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root e63908da-ef76-4c96-8820-8975eeeaf7e4
linux /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 vga=0x31a selinux=0 resume=/dev/sda1 splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd
}When you have a boot partition separate from the root partition, the set root line ( and search)refers to the boot, but the linux line should refer to root. But root is sda2?

I would copy above to 40_custom after experimenting in booting. YOu can at grub menu use e for edit and change sda3/sda1 - both to sda2 or try others if that does not work. Once you find the correct combination then copy above and permantently edit it in 40_custom.

gksudo gedit /etc/grub.d/40_custom
#Then do:
sudo update-grub

[aixilin]

Thanks for your help, but it is still not working. The grub.cfg file is same as before.

From Ubuntu, the grub2 can find the bootable files in sda2 (suse root), but failed to boot in.


The decoder error is nothing to worry about; it has something to do with the way the script parses information.

I see that legacy-GRUB is installed to the PBR of sda2 whereas GRUB2 is in the MBR of sda.

Try reinstalling GRUB and see if that helps:

from within the Ubuntu install, run these commands:


sudo grub-install --recheck /dev/sda


sudo update-grub

Then try to boot again.

[aixilin]

Thanks for your suggestion. The root of SuSe is in sda3. The sda1 is the swap, sda 2 is the fail safe part. I replace resume=/dev/sda1 with resume=/dev/sda3 and reboot, then it failed again. I also tried use sda2 here, but failed.


I am not familiar with SuSe, but it looks like the os-prober fixed the boot partition number to boot from sda3 but not the root partition number in the linux line. Old grub is one number different from grub2. And SuSe has sda1 as swap.


menuentry "SUSE LINUX 10.0 (on /dev/sda3)" --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
insmod part_msdos
insmod reiserfs
set root='(/dev/sda,msdos3)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root e63908da-ef76-4c96-8820-8975eeeaf7e4
linux /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 vga=0x31a selinux=0 resume=/dev/sda1 splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd
}When you have a boot partition separate from the root partition, the set root line ( and search)refers to the boot, but the linux line should refer to root. But root is sda2?

I would copy above to 40_custom after experimenting in booting. YOu can at grub menu use e for edit and change sda3/sda1 - both to sda2 or try others if that does not work. Once you find the correct combination then copy above and permantently edit it in 40_custom.

gksudo gedit /etc/grub.d/40_custom
#Then do:
sudo update-grub

[oldfred]

You also installed grub legacy to the partition boot sector of sda3. We can try chainloading.

Copy this into 40_custom.


menuentry "Chainload Other Systems Grub Menu on sda3" {
set root=(hd0,3)
chainloader +1
}


sudo update-grub


If it works then you can update descriptions to whatever you want.