Bug 375174

Summary:	Installer crashes when not installing a boot loader
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	Volker Kuhlmann <bugz57>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	E-mail List <yast2-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Alpha 3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
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Attachments:	Yast logs after the installer crashed and continued in text mode.

Description Volker Kuhlmann 2008-03-29 10:04:47 UTC

When installing A3 on a system which already has Linux installed, I don't want A3 to install its own boot loader and mess everything up for the other Linux (esp when grub installation doesn't work most of the time anyway).

Selecting "don't install boot loader" in the installation summary, I start the installation. A partition is duely formatted, but about when the first package is installed yast crashes. It's too fast to read the message, yast restarts in text mode. After setting everything up again, crash at the same place. I then do set up a grub installation with a manually fixed menu.lst, and the crash doesn't happen.

Note this is only my best guess as to what action causes the crash, I might be completely wrong. Yast log attached.

Comment 1 Volker Kuhlmann 2008-03-29 10:06:58 UTC

Created attachment 204799 [details]
Yast logs after the installer crashed and continued in text mode.

Comment 2 Stefan Hundhammer 2008-03-31 12:24:40 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 360646 ***