Bugzilla – Bug 302004
merge existing GRUB menu.lst for parallel installation
Last modified: 2009-02-11 15:15:31 UTC
For my first test, I installed 10.3 Beta1 on a working openSUSE 10.2 system which has everything except /boot in LVM, by creating a new LVM logical volume for the 10.3 root partition and mounting the existing /boot partition without formatting. Despite the warning from YaST this works perfectly fine, but I had to merge the GRUB menu items for 10.2 from /boot/grub/menu.lst.old into /boot/grub/menu.lst manually, whereafter the 10.2 installation also boots fine again. As this is rather convenient for testing, I'd like to suggest that this be done automatically, ie. if the installation procedure finds an existing menu.lst it should preserve its entries and just add a new one in front of them. Also, the strong warning against mounting existing partitions without reformatting them could, at least in the case of /boot, be toned down a bit.
This is something for yast2-bootloader, not yast2-storage.
Problem still exists in openSUSE 10.3 Beta2.
This won't be fixed in 10.3, but we'll keep in in mind.
reevaluate bug for SLE11
see above
assign to yast2-bootloader maintainer
After checking code there is part which is responsible for adding other installed OS but it doesn't work with LVM and also it works different from your point of view. The yast2-bootloader check other linux partitions and if it finds some menu.lst it takes dafault boot entry and add it to new menu.lst (if it is classical boot entry) Your idea is different from existing solution it is opposite of existing solution ;-) I am sorry we consumed a lot of time with fixing bugs in algorithm for adding other installed OS. There is also a lot of open bugs for bootloader. It will be better to concentrate power on fixing existing problems. Closed like wontfix. You can also send patch ;-)