https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728524 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728524#c0 Summary: yast do not write a correct grub menu.lst and don't allow to manually fix it (other than with vi) Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.1 Version: RC 2 Platform: i686 OS/Version: SuSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: jdd@dodin.org QAContact: jsrain@suse.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1 see also https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691060 For now a very long time, yast writes on top of any menu.lst entry a line "root (hdX,Y)". The only use I see for this entry is the gfx menu position (that is not that important), because removing it do not prevent grub from booting. The problem is double: * grub have a random way of numbering the hard drives * on 12.1, yast do not follow the grub way (it does in 11.4) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. my problem was the following (see also http://forums.opensuse.org/forums/english/get-technical-help-here/install-bo...): I had one sata drive (sata 0, boot drive) and one ide drive. I added a new sata drive on sata 1. No kernel problem, the drives where seen as sda (sata 0), sdb (IDE), sdc (sata 1). At first the boot system hanged. When I could boot (tricky - from rescue dvd) 12.1, I noticed the sata 0 drive was now (hd2,X) when it was before hd0 and yast instructed to give a new config still gave hd0. on the same system, 11.4 setted hd2. I want also to notice that it's not possible to verify this setup (the hdX,Y) in yast. This root (hdX,Y) option is not visible in the yast interface. There was long time ago a "edit the config file" in yast, but this option is no more. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.