Bug 551703

Summary: Installer does not identify/set up the Bootloader with other previously installed Linux distros
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.2 Reporter: Clayton smaug42 <smaug42>
Component: BootloaderAssignee: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P5 - None CC: cyberorg
Version: RC 2   
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Hardware: i586   
OS: openSUSE 11.2   
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Description Clayton smaug42 2009-11-01 11:04:33 UTC
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090730 SUSE/3.5.2-2.1 Firefox/3.5.2

The openSUSE 11.2 installer does not identify previously installed Linux distributions, and they are not set up in the Grub boot menu.

Do clean install of Ubuntu 9.10, accepting all defaults and installing on the first partition.  No special setup or options set.

Then install 11.2, accepting all defaults with no special tweaking.  It offers to install on the next available partition, but it does not find the Ubuntu 9.10 install on the first partition at all.

Reverse the install order, installing 11.2 first, and then Ubuntu 9.10, Ubuntu will find and set up openSUSE 11.2 in the Ubuntu version of the Grub boot menu.

Both root partitions are ext4 (if that has any relevance, I don't know).

I also tried changing Grub to the MBR (clickable link/option in the
openSUSE installer) and then re-running the scan to set up Grub..
still nothing, only 11.2 is available.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install a Linux distro other than openSUSE (eg Ubuntu 9.10)
2. Install openSUSE 11.2 on a second partition
3. Bootloader configuration cannot autodetect/find the other Linux distro
Actual Results:  
openSUSE 11.2 is installed and boots OK, but Grub is not set up with options to boot other installed Linux distros.

Expected Results:  
The openSUSE 11.2 installer should detect and configure the Grub menu with all OSes present on the computer at installation time.
Comment 1 Jigish Gohil 2009-11-01 11:13:46 UTC
duplicate of #548993

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 548993 ***