Bug 105718 - Partitioner Mount Point field(s) do not have /boot in list (feature?)
Summary: Partitioner Mount Point field(s) do not have /boot in list (feature?)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: YaST2 (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 2
Hardware: x86 All
: P5 - None : Minor
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Assignee: Thomas Fehr
QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf
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Reported: 2005-08-18 22:57 UTC by Leah Cunningham
Modified: 2005-08-22 09:00 UTC (History)
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short straight y2log (290.76 KB, text/plain)
2005-08-19 13:30 UTC, Arvin Schnell 		Details
another clean y2log (300.80 KB, text/plain)
2005-08-19 14:08 UTC, Leah Cunningham 		Details
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Description Leah Cunningham 2005-08-18 22:57:01 UTC 
I realize this may be by intent, but in case it is not, I have noticed there is
no longer a /boot field in the drop down "Mount Point" list in the various
partitioning menues.
Comment 1 Arvin Schnell 2005-08-19 07:18:05 UTC 
The /boot field is only available during initial installation.  If
it's not present at that time please provide YaST2 logs.
Comment 2 Leah Cunningham 2005-08-19 12:56:06 UTC 
Can you explain what "during initial installation" means?  This was field was
not available in the drop down "Mount Point" list in any of the installation
YaST2 menues.  If that is intentional, that's fine, but I wasn't sure as it has
been there in the past.  See attachment 46624 [details]
Comment 3 Arvin Schnell 2005-08-19 13:03:01 UTC 
"during initial installation" is when you have booted from CD.  You make
a new installation and partition your harddisk. In this case the /boot
entry is present.

When you start YaST from the running system the /boot entry and others
are missing since you already have a /boot partition or directory.

In your log from the other bug I can see:
FileSystems.ycp:861 suggest_m_points:["/", "/boot", "/usr", "/var", "/opt",
"/home", "/srv", "/tmp", "/local", ""]

The entry is also missing if you have already assigned /boot to a
partition.
Comment 4 Leah Cunningham 2005-08-19 13:11:52 UTC 
/boot was never seen in any drop down menu.  I created a RAID device /dev/md0,
and then was presented with the screen to set mount point, format, etc.  At that
screen, /boot was not in the drop down menu, so it was typed in.  I can try to
reproduce that with a cleaner installation path, as several things were tried in
that installation.

Is it possible that if a /boot disk label had existed in the partition table
before that it would not be available?
Comment 5 Arvin Schnell 2005-08-19 13:29:31 UTC 
You are right: In the RAID dialog it's missing.
Comment 6 Arvin Schnell 2005-08-19 13:30:23 UTC 
Created attachment 46689 [details]
short straight y2log
Comment 7 Arvin Schnell 2005-08-19 13:54:45 UTC 
Thomas, I think in custom_part_lib.ycp around line 540 /boot
is filtered out for RAID.  Leftover from time where /boot on
RAID wasn't supported?
Comment 8 Leah Cunningham 2005-08-19 14:08:32 UTC 
Created attachment 46697 [details]
another clean y2log

I went over it again with a clean partition table and saw the same thing with
RAID.
Comment 9 Thomas Fehr 2005-08-22 09:00:36 UTC 
I changed the code that it allows /boot for raid type "raid1",
other raid types are usuitable as /boot partition.