Bug 147536 - problem with language selection on bootscreen
Summary: problem with language selection on bootscreen
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
: 152053 (view as bug list)
Alias: None
Product: SUSE Linux 10.1
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 2
Hardware: 32bit Other
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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Assignee: Ladislav Slezák
QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf
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Reported: 2006-02-02 07:51 UTC by Jens Herden
Modified: 2007-06-08 05:36 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Jens Herden 2006-02-02 07:51:29 UTC 
I am able to select the language for installation on the boot screen already, very nice feature by the way. 
When I do this the installation starts with the second screen, check of the media. 
The problem is that I can not change my mind anymore here and choose another language. While there is the back button enabled, clicking it aborts the installation process instead of going back to the language selection screen. 

I would expect to get the language selection screen when I choose back.
Comment 1 Christian Boltz 2006-02-02 12:02:52 UTC 
... and you can't change the charset because you can't access the language screen (no, I don't like utf8 ;-)

Workaround: You can reach the language settings some steps later at the proposal / summary screen.
Comment 2 Michael Gross 2006-02-02 12:46:06 UTC 
This sounds like a bug anyway.
Jiri: Can you check this out, please?
Comment 3 Jiri Srain 2006-02-19 21:03:01 UTC 
The bug which is there is the fact that the back button is not disabled. I will fix it.
Comment 4 Jiri Srain 2006-02-19 21:43:05 UTC 
Checked it. It is problem of the checkmedia module (inst_checkmedia), which ignores the argument it gets from ProductControl.
Comment 5 Ladislav Slezák 2006-04-12 11:32:34 UTC 
*** Bug 152053 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Jens Herden 2006-04-15 12:10:56 UTC 
still valid in SL10.1 RC1
Comment 7 Jiri Srain 2007-05-23 14:15:31 UTC 
Jens, still valid means that you can abort installation this way or that you cannot change the language? (if possible, I'm interested in the behavior on 10.2 or any 10.3 snapshot)

It was a requirement if the language is selected in the bootloader menu not to ask about it any more.
Comment 8 Jiri Srain 2007-06-07 11:27:32 UTC 
No feedback for two weeks and the bug was reported with early beta of 10.1. Please, reopen if you can reproduce with 10.2 or some of the 10.3 Alpha snapshots.
Comment 9 Jens Herden 2007-06-07 16:58:25 UTC 
I just tested with 10.2 and I can confirm that the bug is solved. 
However the solution was to disable the back button. This works but prohibits that I can change my language again once I made the selection on the boot screen. IMHO nicer would be to be able to use the back button to go to the language selection.

But I think this is not important so I will not open the bug again ;-)
Comment 10 Ladislav Slezák 2007-06-08 05:36:23 UTC 
You can change the language in the installation proposal, no need to go back...