Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (148 mails)

["Marlier, Ian" <ian.marlier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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