Bug 664883

Summary:	kernel updates always molest to death grub ^kernel line
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.3	Reporter:	Daniel Pecka <nettezzaumanaa>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Josef Reidinger <jreidinger>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	mvidner
Version:	Final
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Daniel Pecka 2011-01-17 09:06:39 UTC

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hi there ..

i've found again (and i'm reporting it again) ::

**bloody yast always molests to death ^kernel line by kicking out all non-generic paramters** and putting there some hardcoded one ..

THIS IS VERY VERY UGLY .. please do something with ..

regards, daniel

ps. no need to feel touched, i'm playing it up just for disburden this shameful behaviour ..

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Daniel Pecka 2011-01-17 09:16:46 UTC

okay, guys on irc woofed me down so i did following:

`zypper -vv patch, init 6`

result was:

1) replaced /dev/sda$n by UIIDs,
2) kicked out additional paramters like vga=$foo ipv6.disable=$bar
3) added back splash

regards

Comment 2 Josef Reidinger 2011-01-17 09:39:45 UTC

Sorry, you bug report is not much clear. Could you be more specific? Especially how looks menu.lst before and after update and what you have in /etc/sysconfig/bootloader? And if you attach whole yast logs it would be nice.
thanks

Comment 3 Daniel Pecka 2011-01-17 10:28:02 UTC

heya Josef,

okay, i'm agreeing that i didn't put in DEFAULT_APPEND=$foo in sysconfig/bootloader but just modified boot/grub/menu.lst by hand although there is written:

# Configure custom boot parameters for updated kernels in /etc/sysconfig/bootloader

my big apologies ^^ my bad .. i'm just old school admin stucked in times of sles10 ..

regards, daniel

ps. please, close a bug as `reporter ignoracy`

Comment 4 Josef Reidinger 2011-01-17 10:54:34 UTC

OK, no problem. I think that there is a plan to change it to work it with manual changes menu.lst and use sysconfig just as fallback if something goes wrong, but it depends on available resources.