Bug 352020

Summary:	Graphical failsafe mode
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Alexander Osthof <aosthof>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	coolo
Version:	Beta 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	246158
Attachments:	/home/sndirsch/yast2-bootloader-bug352020-graphical-failsafe.diff perl-Bootloader-x11failsafe.diff

Description Stefan Dirsch 2008-01-07 15:01:34 UTC

In Bug #246158 a proposal for a graphical failsafe mode has been made, which
is supported by the openSUSE project manager (coolo). Apart from some changes in xdm init script we also need some small changes in generating /boot/grub/menu.lst.

 * use the same "vga" option value as in the non-"Failsafe" entry
 * remove "3" option (runlevel)
 * add "x11failsafe" option

I suggest to put the "vga=" option behind "showopts" so one can still edit it.
Just an example:

Before:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off
       acpi=off noresume edd=off 3

Afterwards:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 showopts vga=0x315 ide=nodma apm=off
       acpi=off noresume edd=off x11failsafe

Comment 1 Stefan Dirsch 2008-01-07 22:10:31 UTC

Created attachment 189633 [details]
/home/sndirsch/yast2-bootloader-bug352020-graphical-failsafe.diff

patch (completely untested) similar to this?

Comment 2 Jozef Uhliarik 2008-01-24 13:20:10 UTC

done patch is added in version 2.16.4 of bootloader

Comment 4 Stefan Dirsch 2008-04-24 12:49:01 UTC

In Beta1 the failsafe entry contains again "vga=normal" and "3" and is missing "x11failsafe". :-( I need to reopen this bugreport.

Comment 7 Stefan Dirsch 2008-04-24 19:46:05 UTC

Created attachment 210324 [details]
perl-Bootloader-x11failsafe.diff

Similar patch, this time against perl-Bootloader.

Comment 10 Alexander Osthof 2008-04-25 09:55:51 UTC

(In reply to comment #0 from Stefan Dirsch)
> I suggest to put the "vga=" option behind "showopts" so one can still edit it.

As the vga parameter is treated as an extra parameter besides the other appended parameters in perl-Bootloader, the only doable solution would be:

Before:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off
       acpi=off noresume edd=off 3

Afterwards:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 showopts ide=nodma apm=off
       acpi=off noresume edd=off x11failsafe vga=0x315

Would this anyway suit your needs?

Comment 11 Stefan Dirsch 2008-04-25 10:06:31 UTC

Sure, sounds perfect to me. :-)

Comment 12 Alexander Osthof 2008-04-25 11:22:44 UTC

Fixed package submitted to STABLE, thus closing RESOLVED FIXED.

Comment 13 Stefan Dirsch 2008-04-25 12:00:20 UTC

Thanks. I'll give it a try with Beta2.