Bug 118189

Summary:	YAST does not install a boot loader properly
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Tony Reix <Tony.Reix>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Olaf Dabrunz <odabrunz>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	RC 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PowerPC-64
OS:	SUSE Other
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Found By:	Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
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Description Tony Reix 2005-09-21 09:35:44 UTC

YAST does not install a boot loader properly.
It claims:
->I may create a /boot partition with enough space on it
->I may create a PReR boot partition

There is yet a /boot partition created with ~25Mo space on it and there is no 
way to create a PReR boot partition (proposed choices are: reiserfs, ext ... but
not PReR).


SLES9 was installed successfuly on this PPC machine. AIX 5.3 too.


There is another bug dealing with "boot loader" pbs with PPC (115529) but it
seems different than this one.

Regards,
Tony

Comment 1 Michael Gross 2005-09-21 10:58:53 UTC

Sorry again Jiří ;)

Comment 3 Jiri Srain 2005-12-15 12:08:19 UTC

Reasigning to new maintainer

Comment 4 Olaf Dabrunz 2006-06-02 15:28:36 UTC

The issue with the /boot partition has been fixed.

If you want to create a "PReP Boot" partition, you can do so by selecting
the "PReP boot" partition type (instead of the filesystem type) in
yast2-partitioner. This only works on PPC systems, and AFAIR it was fixed
some time ago.