Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (67 mails)

[Lars Stavholm <stava@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lars Stavholm wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I've got a setup with three RAID1 SATA disks, using grub as boot loader.
> All works fine except for one thing: I can only boot on the first disk.
> This is my boot loader definition in autoinst.xml:
> 
> [snip]
>   <bootloader>
>     <global>
>       <activate>true</activate>
>       <generic_mbr>true</generic_mbr>
>       <gfxmenu>/boot/message</gfxmenu>
>       <timeout config:type="integer">5</timeout>
>     </global>
>     <loader_device>/dev/md</loader_device>

Sorry to confuse things, typo, it should be...

      <loader_device>/dev/md0</loader_device>

I've got /boot mounted on /dev/md0.

/Lars

>     <loader_type>grub</loader_type>
>     <location>mbr</location>
>     <repl_mbr config:type="boolean">true</repl_mbr>
>   </bootloader>
> [snip]
> 
> After successful installation, I can see that /etc/grub.conf only
> mentions the first disk, where it should mention all three.
> After reading the documentation, I'm still not wiser. If I fix
> it using YaST2 on the installed machine, all I have to do is
> to select "o Boot from Boot Partition", install the new bootloader,
> check out /etc/grub.conf, and sure enough, there's the three disks.
> 
> What do I have to do to get autoyast to install the boot loader
> on all three disks, not just the first one?
> 
> Or, what are the legal values for "<location>"?
> 
> What am I doing wrong here?
> 
> Any advice appreciated
> /Lars Stavholm

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