[opensuse-autoinstall] prevent partition activation with grub/SLES 11
Hi,
after lilo has so many bugs in SLES 11, I tried with grub and just ran
into the first problem:
I've Windows partitions on my hosts and I install grub in the mbr, so
I don't need to activate any partition for grub and want the Windows
partition to stay activated.
I tried all kind of variants in my profile:
<bootloader>
<global config:type="list">
Here are three consecutive messages from y2log that contain the word 'activate': 2009-05-08 15:42:55 <1> cantor(4159) [YCP] bootloader/routines/autoinstall.ycp:159 Bootloader settings from profile: $["global":[$["key":"timeout", "value":"10"], $["key":"password", "value":"--md5 $1$PvC31/$.jvVgGSAyH2sfrvCa7oy40"], $["key":"color", "value":"white/blue black/light-gray"], $["key":"activate", "value":false]], "loader_device":"/dev/sda", "loader_type":"grub", "location":"mbr"] 2009-05-08 15:42:55 <1> cantor(4159) [Bootloader_API] modules/Bootloader_API.pm(Bootloader_API::DumpLog):28 GRUB::Parselines: input from menu.lst : 'timeout 10' ' password --md5 $1$PvC31/$.jvVgGSAyH2sfrvCa7oy40' ' color white/blue black/light-gray' ' activate false' 2009-05-08 15:42:55 <1> cantor(4159) [YCP] bootloader/routines/lib_iface.ycp:221 Reading bootloader global settings 2009-05-08 15:42:55 <1> cantor(4159) [YCP] bootloader/routines/lib_iface.ycp:228 Read global settings: $["activate":"true", "color":"white/blue black/light-gray", "lines_cache_id":"0", "password":"--md5 $1$PvC31/$.jvVgGSAyH2sfrvCa7oy40", "timeout":"10"] Thus, the profile is read correctly. But then the parameters are transferred to some menu.lst style "activate false", and then I guess that the sole existence of the word "activate" in a menu.lst (which isn't yet there, I guess it's just fake) is interpreted as "activate=true". I guess it goes wrong because "activate" is not a real grub option but handled as one? Could that be? Please let me know if you consider this a YaST and not a AY bug, then I can submit it to the Novell Support. cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. * -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org
on Friday 08 May 2009 Frank Steiner wrote:
Please let me know if you consider this a YaST and not a AY bug, then I can submit it to the Novell Support.
it's a yast2-bootloader bug. Please submit a bug report. Thanx -- ciao, Uwe Gansert Uwe Gansert, Server Technologies Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Business: http://www.suse.de/~ug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org
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Frank Steiner
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Uwe Gansert