I have the following lines in my autoyast profile in order to set a grub 
password: 
 
    <bootloader> 
      <activate config:type="boolean">false</activate> 
      <global> 
        <default>Linux</default> 
        <password>--md5 $1$someencryptedmd5string</password> 
        <prompt>1</prompt> 
        <timeout config:type="integer">8</timeout> 
      </global> 
... 
 
This is according to the XML syntax autoyast generates if I let it generate a 
reference profile, which seems to be different from 9.3.. But autoyast doesn't 
put the password into the menu.lst file. Following are some lines from the 
y2log in the hope they are useful: 
 
... 
2005-09-21 20:58:11 <1> linux(3146) [YCP] bootloader/routines/misc.ycp:1306 
Available swap partitions: $["/dev/sda7":1612154880] 
2005-09-21 20:58:11 <2> linux(3146) [YCP] bootloader/routines/misc.ycp:1379 
Incorrect translation Failsafe -> 
2005-09-21 20:58:11 <1> linux(3146) [YCP] 
bootloader/routines/autoinstall.ycp:208 SLES9 format detected: false 
2005-09-21 20:58:11 <3> linux(3146) [Interpreter] 
bootloader/routines/autoinstall.ycp:243 Can't convert value 
'[$["default":"Linux"], $["password":"--md5 $1$someencryptedmd5string"], 
$["prompt":"1"], $["timeout":"8"]]' to type 'map' 
2005-09-21 20:58:11 <3> linux(3146) [Interpreter] 
bootloader/routines/autoinstall.ycp:243 Argument (/* any -> map 
*/exp["specific", "global"]:$[]) to haskey(...) is nil 
2005-09-21 20:58:11 <3> linux(3146) [Interpreter] 
bootloader/routines/autoinstall.ycp:243 if condition is nil. 
... 
 
I also tried to use the following old XML syntax from 9.3 but that messed up 
the menu.lst file even more, but in a different way: 
 
    <bootloader> 
      <activate config:type="boolean">false</activate> 
      <global config:type="list"> 
        <global_entry> 
          <key>color</key> 
          <value>white/blue black/light-gray</value> 
        </global_entry> 
        <global_entry> 
          <key>default</key> 
          <value config:type="integer">0</value> 
        </global_entry> 
        <global_entry> 
          <key>timeout</key> 
          <value config:type="integer">8</value> 
        </global_entry> 
        <global_entry> 
          <key>gfxmenu</key> 
          <value>(hd0,0)/message</value> 
        </global_entry> 
        <global_entry> 
          <key>password</key> 
          <value>--md5 $1$someencryptedmd5string</value> 
        </global_entry> 
      </global> 
... 
 
 
What's the correct way to specify a grub password in 10.0?