Bug 216072

Summary:	yast2 bootloader configuration not working properly
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3	Reporter:	Andreas Klein <asklein>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Stefan Fent <stefan.fent>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	aj, vetter
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	Other
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Found By:	Other	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	yast2 logs

Description Andreas Klein 2006-10-28 13:44:00 UTC

I have no YaST logs because of but 216070, so I will describe the problem.
Machine is an IBM R50p internal hdd + USB hdd.
I tried a new installation. As always as bootloader location /dev/sda (internal hdd was chosen). I always change this to /dev/sdb (USB hdd), but this time, the menu did not offer /dev/sdb as boot loader location (only /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdb2 was possible). I was also not pssible the change the order of the disks (it complained about no bootloader location selected, even if it was selected or configured in the edit files dialog). I always used
(hd1) /dev/sda
(hd0) /dev/sdb
This chenges were only possible by editing the configuration files (/boot/grub/menu.list, /etc/grub.conf and device.map).
This is not a big problem for me, because I can edit the files by hand, but up to 10.2 alpha5 the yast module worked just fine.

Comment 1 Lukas Ocilka 2006-11-01 14:06:13 UTC

mhorvath: If there is bug in bootloader, odabrunz is the correct assignee

Comment 2 Andreas Klein 2006-11-12 21:42:42 UTC

Created attachment 104863 [details]
yast2 logs

The problem still exists in beta2

Comment 3 Philipp Thomas 2006-11-17 15:45:41 UTC

Yes, what you are trying to do isn't possible. You currently have to manually edit the device.map file and then you should be able to select as you wish.

Comment 4 Andreas Klein 2006-11-17 16:12:24 UTC

Why not possible? It works with 10.1, why shouldn't it be possible in 10.2?

Comment 5 Olaf Dabrunz 2006-11-28 15:42:29 UTC

The bootloader configuration for grub was undergoing major internal changes for 10.2. For 10.2 we had to drop the device map expert editor. You need to use the generic editor in yast2-bootloader for bootloader files instead, and edit the device.map file manually there.  For 10.3 and SLES10 SP1, we will see what we can do about this.

Comment 6 Stefan Fent 2007-01-22 10:00:11 UTC

So we would need a way to let the user choose the MBR of which disk he likes to boot from.
This makes sense in certain configurations.

Comment 7 Christoph Thiel 2007-08-08 09:04:22 UTC

Stefan, what's the status on this one? I sounds like a potential feature/FATE request to me.

Comment 8 Stephan Kulow 2007-10-03 10:44:48 UTC

Stefan, please transfer into FATEh

Comment 9 Stefan Fent 2007-10-09 10:47:38 UTC

done: #302875
resolved wontfix for 10.3