Hey, Uwe: Any thoughts on this one? Bug or no? On 6/15/06 1:18 PM, "Marlier, Ian" <ian.marlier@studentuniverse.com> wrote:

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

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2006/6/15, Marlier, Ian <ian.marlier@studentuniverse.com>:

<bootloader> <global> <default>XEN</default> </global> <sections config:type="list"> [snip] <section> <name>XEN</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.

default

when I think it should read

default XEN

Just FYI, I think I am having a similar problem when installing LILO w/ AutoYast (SuSE 10.1 i386). I specify: <global> <default>Linux</default> </global> ... but when I actually install, Yast complains at some point that: lilo.conf: missing value for default in line 11. If I look at the system-being-installed /etc/lilo.conf file, I see in it line: default= without the section name. When I press Yes in Yast to attempt bootloader config, it shows me all the sections I've had and I just have to manually checkbox the default one. Been bit frustrating and the only thing to keep me from making fully automated installs. (That and the fact that AutoYast seems to freeze system instead of reboot, after initial install is done). The machines btw, are IBM x306m.