Bug 343849

Summary: Missing hint for required floppy drive in YaST
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3 Reporter: Forgotten User 5bOUleMVRM <forgotten_5bOUleMVRM>
Component: YaST2Assignee: Jozef Uhliarik <juhliarik>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Enhancement    
Priority: P5 - None CC: cooling.crystals
Version: Final   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i686   
OS: openSUSE 10.3   
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Description Forgotten User 5bOUleMVRM 2007-11-23 19:42:53 UTC 
I wanted to do a fresh install with / on a software raid. Creation of the raid1 within YaST was easy and straightforward.

I was a little astonished that after defining the raid as root device grub was still selected by default as boot loader, but gave it a try. Copying of files started, but when it was finished I was prompted to put a floppy into the drive to get the boot sector written.

Unfortunately my computer has no floppy drive and even if it had, I would not want to boot from a floppy each time. So I had to start the installation all over trying lilo. An early warning that a floppy drive is required for the selected configuration would have been a great help.
Comment 1 Arvin Schnell 2007-12-04 11:13:29 UTC 
Hint is good and if no floppy is detected even a error message.
Comment 4 k. t. 2008-06-11 01:09:21 UTC 
related to bug 333459 maybe?
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=333459
Comment 5 Jozef Uhliarik 2008-07-15 20:06:22 UTC 
it is duplicate of bug #333459

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 333459 ***