KDE4 Live CD does not find Harddisk after installation

[DocB]

Hi all,

the KDE4 Live CD, based on SuSE 10.3 boots fine, installs as well, but is thereafter unable to find the disk where it is installed.

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Waiting for device /dev/disk/by-id/... to appear: Could not find /dev/disk/by-id/...

I already created a new initrd inside the installation (booting from live-iso, starting installed system in chroot etc), but that did not help.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Axel

[frank]

Please could you post the exact message, that is the disk ID would be interesting. You should boot the VM from the live CD and execute

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hdparm -i /dev/sda

Compare the IDs of the message with the ID shown by hdparm.

[DocB]

So...first of all, the error message:

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Could not find /dev/disk/by-id/ata-VBOX_HARDDISK_VBdc409b91-63e462ed-part1

hdparm gave the output:

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Model=VBOX HARDDISK FwRev=1.0, SerialNo=VBdc409b91-63e462ed

Looks very similar to me. On the updated KDE 4.01 it does not happen anymore, so the pressure to resolve is gone

[frank]

They fixed something, the question is what. The ChangeLog of the 4.0.1 LiveCD contains '... will hopefully work also on some computers whose broken BIOS had problems finding the boot code in certain sectors before.'

The question is what they did exactly, perhaps we could fix our BIOS as this bug may affect other problems as well. Any information is appreciated.

[frank]

DocB: Please could you tell me which type of virtual hard disk image you used (static size or dynamically expanding) and which size?

[DocB]

I used dynamically expanding, default size 8G

[frank]

Thanks, I could reproduce this problem with that disk size, with 2GB the problem did not occur. Still no clue if this is a bug of VBox or of the installation CD.

[DocB]

Interesting...did you try to partition like this:

/boot -> 100M
/ -> 7G
swap -> the rest

Would be interested if this causes trouble on the 8G as well