Mageia 3 update breaks boot

[skyphyr]

Hi all,

This is an awkward one to give any details on. I did the online upgrade from 2-3 and after that the machine became unbootable. Not even grub, it would just reset itself immediately after getting past the bios.

I figured the update process was broken, and so I installed from dvd. Got it all working, rebooted in there etc. Everything is happy, then I ran the updates, and the same result.

Is this a known bug? Any ideas what it could be? This is a 64bit asus laptop - I think a K55, but I'd need to check. No other OSes installed. LUKS encryption on individual partitions (not an encrypted LVM partition). Not sure what other details may be useful.

Cheers,

Alan

[marja]

Ah, I've seen something similar when I had a non-bootable USB-key or USB-HD plugged in, and in the BIOS the USB-drive was set to be the first one to be booted.

Now that I read your post, I'm starting to think that in Mageia 2, booting just continued from a next drive, if the first one was not bootable. However, I'm not sure about that.