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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=390659


           Summary: autoyast bootloader config: empty settings are ignored
                    (impossible to entry w/o initrd)
           Product: openSUSE 11.0
           Version: Beta 1
          Platform: x86-64
        OS/Version: openSUSE 11.0
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P5 - None
         Component: AutoYaST
        AssignedTo: ug@xxxxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: gernot@xxxxxxxxxx
         QAContact: qa@xxxxxxx
          Found By: ---


I'm trying to auto-install a system with memtest. Memtest doesn't seem to work
when GRUB loads some initrd.

So I simply want YaST to create the following entry in menu.lst:

title Memtest
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /boot/memtest.bin

However, it seems to be impossible to specify empty settings in autoinst.xml.

When I e.g. try the following section:

<section>
   <image>/boot/memtest.bin</image>
   <name>Memtest</name>
   <type>image</type>
 </section> 

Then I end up with something like

title Memtest
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /boot/memtest.bin root=/dev/disk/... ... a lot of other params ...
    initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.25-rc9-17-default 

Specifying empty settings like <append></append>, <initrd></initrd> doesn't
change anything. Then only workaround which comes close to what I want is using

 <section>
   <append> </append>
   <image>/boot/memtest.bin</image>
   <kernel>/boot/memtest.bin</kernel>
   <initrd> </initrd>
   <name>Memtest</name>
   <root> </root>
   <type>image</type>
 </section> 

which gives me the (invalid) bootloader entry

title Memtest
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /boot/memtest.bin root= 
    initrd  

But - whatever I tried, I didn't find a way to disable writing the "initrd"
line (the weird root= parameter isn't nice, but it doesn't hurt memtest at
least).


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