Created attachment 60444 [details]
logs

error is "Bad file descriptor"

This is reproduceable on another machine!

We need logs from the target system.

Seems like lib-Perl-Bootloader dies on the target.

BTW I invoked grub-install manually (after chroot to the new system) and it worked fine.

you never know... ;-) We need the logs.

Created attachment 60446 [details]
logs from installed system

Syntax error:

2005-12-13 16:35:22 <3> linux(9721) [Parser] <stdin>:34 Parameters don't match any declaration:
2005-12-13 16:35:22 <3> linux(9721) [Parser] <stdin>:34 Bootloader_API::setPartitions ([["/dev/hda1", "/dev/hda", "1", "130", "Linux swap", "`primary", 0, 131], ["/dev/hda2", "/dev/hda", "2", "131", "Linux native", "`primary", 131, 2611], ["/dev/hda3", "/dev/hda", "3", "131", "Linux native", "`primary", 2742, 765], ["/dev/hda4", "/dev/hda", "4", "131", "Linux native", "`primary", 3507, 1358]])
2005-12-13 16:35:22 <3> linux(9721) [Parser] <stdin>:34 Candidates are:
2005-12-13 16:35:22 <3> linux(9721) [Parser] <stdin>:34 global boolean Bootloader_API::setPartitions (list <list <string>>)

But the validation is done also  inside inst-sys,
so it seems to be a mismatch between inst-sys and the target system.

I assume the value passed to setPartition is created somewhere, were the code
does not check the validity of the type information regarding the real value.

I suspect Perl code, but I'm not familiar with perl-Bootloader.

I have submitted yast2-bootloader-2.13.3 with this fix. I did not test but it should fix the problem in the y2log.

--- trunk/bootloader/src/routines/lib_iface.ycp (original)
+++ trunk/bootloader/src/routines/lib_iface.ycp Tue Dec 13 19:25:21 2005
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@

            return [ device, disk, nr_str, tostring(p["fsid"]:0),
                p["fstype"]:"unknown", tostring(p["type"]:nil),
-               p["region", 0]:0, p["region", 1]:0
+               tostring(p["region", 0]:0), tostring(p["region", 1]:0)
            ];
        });
        return parts;

Created attachment 60459 [details]
/var/log/YaST2/*

logfiles from a thinkpad T40p
- textmode installation
- bootloader location: mbr of hda

Seems that the fix doesn't work. See #12 for more details

Reopend for new trial...

FYI: the CD with new yast2-bootfloppy-2.13.3-2.i586.rpm and yast2-bootloader-2.13.3-2.i586.rpm is temporary on 
/mounts/machcd2/CDs/SUSE-10.1-CD-OSS-i386-Alpha4/SUSE-10.1-CD-OSS-i386-Alpha4-CD1.iso

Lars, you need to update the inst-sys with the fixed yast2-bootloader package. Otherwise, the old version is still used (and according to #12 it is obvious that Martin's patch wasn't used).

Oh, sorry. So the best seems to wait for the end of the autobuild run and try again.

Seems to work.

Seems to work for me as well!

Now I have a different problem: The bootloader does not work for me.  Time for another PR :-(