Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (50 mails)

["Cameron Seader" <cseader@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Where did you find the XML for that? I don't see it in the docs anywhere.
-Cameron


>>> On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 10:38 AM, in message
<E7B8E53F-8A88-4FC4-9B15-8CF24A2E2F3E@xxxxxxxxx>, Anton Altaparmakov
<aia21@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> On 10 Sep 2007, at 17:31, Cameron Seader wrote:
>> 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>
>        <loader_type>grub</loader_type>
>        <loader_device>/dev/sda</loader_device>
>        <location>mbr</location>
>        <repl_mbr config:type="boolean">true</repl_mbr>
>        <global>
>          <activate config:type="boolean">true</activate>
>          <boot_boot config:type="boolean">false</boot_boot>
>          <boot_mbr config:type="boolean">true</boot_mbr>
>          <boot_root config:type="boolean">false</boot_root>
>          <debug config:type="boolean">false</debug>
>          <default config:type="integer">0</default>
>          <generic_mbr config:type="boolean">true</generic_mbr>
>          <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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