Bug 681104

Summary: ybl: detect grub2 ubuntu installation
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.4 Reporter: Ivanov <damianatorrpm>
Component: BasesystemAssignee: Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P3 - Medium CC: damianatorrpm, freek, tgoettlicher, wulf_bolte
Version: Factory   
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Hardware: Other   
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Description Ivanov 2011-03-20 10:01:14 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/534.25 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/10.10 Chromium/12.0.706.0 Chrome/12.0.706.0 Safari/534.25

Hi, 
I installed openSUSE 11.4. On the same computer is also Ubuntu installed. Grub did not detect it for me.


Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Freek de Kruijf 2011-04-15 07:24:27 UTC 
I have the same problem after installation of openSUSE 11.4. YaST-bootloader does not detect other partitions, with bootable systems, openSUSE 11.3 and openSUSE 11.2. Not even after a completed update of openSUSE 11.4. So I had quite some trouble to go back to the openSUSE 11.3 system.
Comment 2 Torsten Duwe 2011-04-19 13:41:49 UTC 
critical? Come on, people.

And it is not the purpose of the boot loader to _detect_ other operating systems.
Comment 3 Freek de Kruijf 2011-04-19 13:55:20 UTC 
YaST-bootloader is there to install a proper bootloader and in doing so should do a proper job in detecting other bootable systems on the other partitions and enter the code in the bootloader to be able, when GRUB is active, to boot not only the system on which the bootloader is generated, but also other systems in other partitions.
This is critical for the novice user that installs openSUSE 11.4 on his/her system and afterwards is not able to return to the system that he/she was using before.
Comment 5 Wulf Bolte 2011-12-11 18:18:59 UTC 
I too think its crucial - if someone tests openSuse and it first wipes the other bootloaders it behaves like windows.

Ubuntu does recognize openSuse and integrates it into the bootloader - thats what sould opensuse should do too!
Comment 7 Ivanov 2012-09-06 16:55:58 UTC 
Fixed in 12.2 for me, sorry was not added in CC so didn't see you want logs from me :-(
Comment 8 Steffen Winterfeldt 2012-09-14 07:59:43 UTC 
ok, closing