Bug 424095

Summary: perl-bootloader does it's task incorrectly (Grub)
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1 Reporter: Raymond Wooninck <rwooninck>
Component: InstallationAssignee: Josef Reidinger <jreidinger>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P2 - High    
Version: Factory   
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Hardware: i686   
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Description Raymond Wooninck 2008-09-07 09:06:43 UTC 
It seems that the new perl-bootloader is not working properly. With every kernel-update all the start-up options (e.g. resume=, showopts, failsafe-options, etc) disappear. They have to be manually added if a failsafe option is required. 

AFter a kernel update currently the failsafe option is equal to the standard boot process. So if something goes wrong during the bootprocess, then the failsafe option will not help either. This could render the system in an useless state, unless the user knows exactly which options to add to the grub boot line. 

As indicated I have Grub installed, so I do not know if this happens also with Lilo. If Lilo is fine, then I might consider to switch. 

Regards

Raymond
Comment 1 Raymond Wooninck 2008-09-07 09:08:26 UTC 
See also bug 420138
Comment 2 Josef Reidinger 2008-09-09 07:03:38 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 423613 ***