Bug 437230

Summary:	bootloader configuration ...
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1	Reporter:	Michael Meeks <mmeeks>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Josef Reidinger <jreidinger>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	jreidinger
Version:	Factory
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Attachments:	logs

Description Michael Meeks 2008-10-21 09:49:10 UTC

in the bootloader configuration tools "Boot Loader Installation" tab, I select

"Boot from Master Boot Record"

and I de-select "Custom boot partition" - which it allows me to do; yet when I come back to this page, it is re-selected - that seems silly.

Can we make it impossible to de-select ? and/or warn that it is not possible (if indeed this is the problem).

Incidentally - I really like this tool, now I discover more of it :-)

Comment 1 Josef Reidinger 2008-10-21 12:55:08 UTC

Can you please provide YaST logs? This is bug and I think this is related to some udev problems.

Comment 2 Michael Meeks 2008-11-13 18:02:40 UTC

Sure - in fact this is trivial to reproduce - just tried it on factory again; un-select "custom boot partition" in the boot loader tab, switch away, switch back and it is re-selected ;-)

Comment 3 Michael Meeks 2008-11-13 18:03:25 UTC

Created attachment 251991 [details]
logs

Comment 4 Josef Reidinger 2008-11-25 19:05:37 UTC

Thanks for logs, this is problem of perl-Bootloader which have problems with translating device. Does you see any problems with hda device instead of sda? this can cause this problem and in some kernel release this happen.

Comment 5 Michael Meeks 2008-11-26 09:32:06 UTC

oh - I see no problems when running the machine, no :-) and, strangely - I can't reproduce it now on my various machines, where before it was easy: perhaps it is related to me booting off a USB key, or perhaps it is fixed; hmm.

Comment 6 Josef Reidinger 2008-11-26 09:42:13 UTC

Yes, it is related to USB key, which is really problematic, because it is added as another disk and change bios order. this is not possible to handle due to limitation of x86 architecture. Closed as invalid.