Comment # 16 on bug 907457 from Martin Pluskal

(In reply to Michael Chang from comment #15)
> On pc-bios platform, perl bootloader historically uses hd0 grub device
> provided by device.map as the MBR device to install. The device.map was
> created by YaST during installation time, iirc. So this can be yast related
> ??
> 
> The issue here can be fixed if by-id names is used in device.map. I vaguely
> remember in openSUSE it should had been using by-id name in device.map, but
> I'm not really sure and I'll check it.
> 
> And how to correct such errors via maintenance update ?
Who is talking/requesting maintenance update here?
> User has to correct
> the device.map manually to reflect their (setup) changes anyway, so in this
> regard it looks like "won't fix" or invalid.

It is my understanding that device.map containing kernel device name should not
be created at all - but apparently this has happened, and since system was
installed about two weeks ago, it is not unreasonable to expect that whatever
caused it is still present.