Re: [opensuse-autoinstall] autoyast SLES10 and SLES10sp1 boot loader configuration....

10 Sep 2007


      Where did you find the XML for that? I don't see it in the docs anywhere.
-Cameron
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On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 10:38 AM, in message
, Anton Altaparmakov
 wrote: 
Hi,
On 10 Sep 2007, at 17:31, Cameron Seader wrote:
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Greetings,
I have two autoinst.xml files one for SLES10 and one for SLES10  
SP1, and the boot loader sections are identical other than the  
labels in the menu.lst. The SLES10 autoinst.xml works great, but  
the SLES10 SP1 never works right at all. I always have to go in  
after the system is installed and install grub from there. What  
changes were made to the bootloader? Is there something that i can  
do in autoyast to make this work?
You want this for SP1:
<bootloader>
       <activate config:type="boolean">true</activate>
       grub
       /dev/sda
       <location>mbr</location>
       true
       <global>
         <activate config:type="boolean">true</activate>
         false
         true
         false
         <debug config:type="boolean">false</debug>
         <default config:type="integer">0</default>
         true
         <hiddenmenu config:type="boolean">false</hiddenmenu>
         <timeout config:type="integer">8</timeout>
       </global>
     </bootloader>
Obviously replace /dev/sda with whatever you boot from.
The reason things have stopped working for you is that SP1 has  
changed the default from installing grub to the MBR to installing  
grub on the /boot partition (or / if not /boot) which is ok when you  
are dual booting with Windows as that will be in the MBR but is no  
use at all when you have a Linux only system that has no MBR unless  
grub puts one there!
Best regards,
Anton
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