[Bug 539774] New: bootloader module wants to write to floppy disk although there is none
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539774 Summary: bootloader module wants to write to floppy disk although there is none Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: Factory Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: sven.burmeister@gmx.net QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090909 SUSE/3.5.3-132.1 Firefox/3.5.3 I let the yast bootloader module create a new configuration and enable "boot from mbr". If I click on OK I am prompted to insert a floppy disk although this netbook does not have one. Reproducible: Always -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539774 User suse@bugs.jan.ritzerfeld.net added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539774#c1 Jan Ritzerfeld <suse@bugs.jan.ritzerfeld.net> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |suse@bugs.jan.ritzerfeld.ne | |t --- Comment #1 from Jan Ritzerfeld <suse@bugs.jan.ritzerfeld.net> 2009-09-27 11:11:27 MDT --- 1. My notebook has no floppy, too. 2. It does not seem to depend on "boot from mbr". I just wanted to install 11.2 Milestone 7 in parallel to my existing 11.1 installation. Thus, I only wanted to put grub into "/" (a primary partition) and let the old grub chainload it. The most disturbing thing was that I could not cancel or close the prompt for a floppy. However, I let YaST write its floppy and there was no error! 3. I ended up with a textual but working grub. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539774 zhu rensheng <rszhu@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |rszhu@novell.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |juhliarik@novell.com |ovo.novell.com | -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539774 User suse@bugs.jan.ritzerfeld.net added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539774#c2 --- Comment #2 from Jan Ritzerfeld <suse@bugs.jan.ritzerfeld.net> 2009-10-02 09:53:38 MDT --- When installing Milestone 8, I manually disabled the boot flag for the root partition, everything was left as the default. There was no prompt for a floppy and the grub menu is now graphically. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539774 User juhliarik@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539774#c3 Jozef Uhliarik <juhliarik@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED --- Comment #3 from Jozef Uhliarik <juhliarik@novell.com> 2009-11-06 07:59:11 MST --- Sorry guys, there is wrong checking of floppy and in some cases bootloader ask you about saving settings to floppy. I hope that this part of code will be deleted in openSUSE 11.3 To Jan Ritzerfeld in comment#1: ------------------------------- YaST tries to propose bootable configuration each time. If you can install GRUB only to partition you have to change it in yast2-bootloader manually. Please don't forget that there is also options "Write Generic Boot Code to MBR" It is in frame where is also located checkbox "Set Active Boot Flag..." But it will not boot after reboot and you have to manually add chainloader section to your old menu.lst from other installation. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539774 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539774#c4 Jozef Uhliarik <juhliarik@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |CLOSED Resolution| |FIXED --- Comment #4 from Jozef Uhliarik <juhliarik@novell.com> 2010-02-09 15:30:53 UTC --- fixed in trunk. the fix will be available in yast2-bootloader 2.19.3 -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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