Bug 438833

Summary:	Bootloader installed despite being deselected
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1	Reporter:	Radomír Černoch <radomir.cernoch>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Jozef Uhliarik <juhliarik>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P2 - High
Version:	Beta 3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	Other
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Community User	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	YaST2 logs created by 'save_y2logs'

Description Radomír Černoch 2008-10-24 17:02:18 UTC

During the installation of openSUSE 11.1 Beta 3 I have unchecked all checkboxes titled "Boot from [Boot partition|Extended partition|...]". Moreover I have selected "Do Not Install Any Bootloader" from the list of available bootloaders.

Despite of this settings, my original bootloader has been overwritten.

However, my configuration of fstab is a bit special. The disk is shared between openSUSE 10.3 and 11.1. The 10.3's fstab is:
/dev/sda5 /     ext3 commit=600     1 1
/dev/sda1 /boot ext3 defaults       1 1
And the 11.1's fstab is:
/dev/sda3 /     ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/sda1 /boot ext3 defaults       1 2
(The shared /boot partition is caused by former installation of openSUSE on LVM.)

Comment 1 Andreas Jaeger 2008-10-25 11:45:26 UTC

Please provide the YaST log files as explained at http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs/YaST

Comment 2 Radomír Černoch 2008-10-25 14:21:45 UTC

Created attachment 247983 [details]
YaST2 logs created by 'save_y2logs'

One more notice:
The installation was done through network and the machine booted from a USB disk (I cannot use a DVD). During the installation the USB disk appeared as /dev/sda and the hard drive as /dev/hda. However once booted the system kernel, the disk is seen as /dev/sda. Is it a possible trigger of the bug?

Comment 3 Jozef Uhliarik 2008-10-31 12:08:14 UTC

fixed in yast2-bootloader 2.17.35 it was also necessary fix in perl-Bootloader. (it should be done)