Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (148 mails)

[Ian Marlier <ian.marlier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey, Uwe: Any thoughts on this one?  Bug or no?


On 6/15/06 1:18 PM, "Marlier, Ian" <ian.marlier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm working on an autoinstall profile for a set of machines that are all
> going to be running Xen, and thus need to use the -xen kernel.
> 
> the .xml file has 4 sections, the first of which uses the standard -smp
> kernel, then the -xen kernel, then the floppy, and then the rescue
> system.
> 
> Each of the sections works fine when selected at boot.
> 
> The configurator thingy in YaST (on a running system) thinks I should be
> able to do something like this (trimmed quite a bit, but the point
> remains -- if the full xml would help, let me know and I can send it
> along):
> 
> <bootloader>
>   <global>
>     <default>XEN</default>
>   </global>
>   <sections config:type="list">
>     <section>
>       <name>SUSE Linux 10.1</name>
>     </section>
>     <section>
>       <name>XEN</name>
>     </section>
>     <section>
>       <name>Floppy</name>
>     </section>
>     <section>
>       <name>SUSE 10.1 Rescue</name>
>     </section>
>   </sections>
> </bootloader>
> 
> However, I seem to end up booted into whatever option is first in this
> list, regardless of what the "default" section reads.
> 
> /boot/grub/menu.lst ends up with a line that looks like this:
> 
> default
> 
> when I think it should read
> 
> default XEN
> 
> or maybe
> 
> default 1
> 
> So, my question: is this a bug?  If so, is it a bug in the
> autoinstaller, or in the configurator thingy?  Or am I just missing
> something?
> 
> (I'm trying a workaround right now, just moving the XEN section to the
> top of the list, above the -smp section.  That may work, does seem like
> less than ideal behavior, though...)
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> Ian
> 
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