Bug 396782

Created attachment 219854 [details]
asking for floppy wtf?

Created attachment 219858 [details]
this is my custom partitioning scheme

I'm rerunning the installation now.

Created attachment 219860 [details]
this is the default grub conf created by installer

Created attachment 219861 [details]
I changed the boot loader location to "boot from master boot record"

I changed the boot loader location to "boot from master boot record", this time installer did not ask for floppy

Created attachment 219867 [details]
installer screwed up

looks like rerunning installation was not such a good idea it failed to mount /dev/sda4 as /home and /dev/sda2 as /kubuntu710

I was able to fix the mounting problems with yast partitioner.

Created attachment 219885 [details]
where is initrd file?

after running online update I'm unable to boot suse11 beta3. Grub gives error15: can't find a file. (I think it can't find initrd)
Mounting /dev/sda1 as /opensuse11 in kubuntu 7.10 gives this picture of opensuse's boot directory. Is it normal that /boot/grub/menu.lst is not a simple text file you can view in text editor?

sudo cat /opensuse11/boot/grub/menu.lst does give me something though:

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Tue Jun  3 19:41:44 EEST 2008
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/message
##YaST - activate

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title openSUSE 11.0
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_HM080HCS0CCJ10LA03766-part1 resume=/dev/sda3 splash=silent showopts vga=0x314
    initrd /boot/initrd

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name:  Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic (/dev/sda2)###
title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic (/dev/sda2)
    root (hd0,1)
    configfile /boot/grub/menu.lst

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- openSUSE 11.0
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_HM080HCS0CCJ10LA03766-part1 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off x11failsafe vga=0x314
    initrd /boot/initrd

There appears to be no / mount point in /opensuse11/etc/fstab. Is this normal?

proc                 /proc                proc       defaults              0 0
sysfs                /sys                 sysfs      noauto                0 0
debugfs              /sys/kernel/debug    debugfs    noauto                0 0
devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     mode=0620,gid=5       0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_HM080HCS0CCJ10LA03766-part4 /home                ext3       defaults              1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_HM080HCS0CCJ10LA03766-part2 /kubuntu710          ext3       defaults              1 2

I think I should try adding the / mount point, maybe that will fix grub not finding initrd.

well obviously nothing changed, still can't boot

Created attachment 219969 [details]
enable three options in boot loader configuration

I burned opensuse 11 RC1 disk and run installation this time selecting more options for boot loader location as seen in the attachment. Floppy message did not appear anymore so I guess bug report can be marked invalid.

new partition setup:
/dev/sda1 - kubuntu 8.04
/dev/sda2 - opensuse 11 rc1
/dev/sda3 - swap
/dev/sda4 - home

Rerun installation with rc1 disk to be sure one more time, selecting options separately. I only tested two options though - boot loader location @ "boot partition" and @ "master boot record", did not touch anything else. The bug is still there then going with default option "boot from boot partition" for boot loader location. The other choice I tried "boot from master boot record" did not ask for non-existing floppy however it didn't create boot option for kubuntu 8.04 @ /dev/sda1 (may be caused by running installation second time straight after the first install with default options asking for floppy)

This is really strange I get this floppy demand on installed suse. 
I configured bootloader in yast on already installed opensuse 11rc1 and clicked "propose new configuration" to get kubuntu 8.04 into boot options. I made sure to choose "boot from master boot record" manually because it insisted once again that this should be "boot from boot partition" by default.

I will add so much that don't bother to reply to this bug report. I decided against using suse11.

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