Bug 340985

Summary:	bootloader writes /dev/sda2 into root in menu.lst
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3	Reporter:	Will Stephenson <wstephenson>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status:	RESOLVED NORESPONSE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
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Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	Other
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Description Will Stephenson 2007-11-12 13:30:09 UTC

I configured the root device as /dev/sda2.  This was written into menu.lst literally as root=(/dev/sda2,1) - which Grub barfed on.

Comment 1 Cyril Hrubis 2007-11-14 18:40:48 UTC

Please attach y2logs. If you are in doubt follow:

http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs/YaST

Thanks!

Comment 2 Cyril Hrubis 2007-12-03 16:09:43 UTC

Please reopen if you can provide needed information.