[Bug 278699] New: YaST2 GRUB setup - wrong menu.lst entry for floppy boot
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=278699 Summary: YaST2 GRUB setup - wrong menu.lst entry for floppy boot Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: Final Platform: PC OS/Version: openSUSE 10.2 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: opensusebugs@archipelago.eclipse.co.uk QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Yast2 [Boot Loader] provides this for floppy boot in menu.lst for GRUB: title Floppy rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader (fd0)+1 This does not work with a freedos boot floppy, which stalls before loading its kernel. Suspect that the boot sector expects freedos kernel.sys to be found on the default drive, which rootnoverify (hd0,0) sets as C:. Suggested fix is YaST2 should provide this for floppy boot in menu.lst: title Floppy rootnoverify (fd0) chainloader (fd0)+1 This works for PCDOS6.3 and freedos - nb testing environment has /dev/sda1 as ext3, for GRUB and linux boot and /dev/sda2 as fat for boot of dos and windows. Tradeoffs: ========== 1] freedos: their loader looks for kernel.sys on the currently understood root drive. If rootnoverify (hd0,0) is deemed correct, this could imply that frredos requires different loaders for floppy and hard drive [???] 2] openSuSE: rootnoverify (hd0,0) may be an attempt to deal with the dos partition on a hard drive not necessarily being unhidden at boot time [???]. If this is the case, it is more appropriate to deal with this by use of GRUB's hide/unhide -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=278699 chrubis@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team- |odabrunz@novell.com |screening@forge.provo.novell| |.com | -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=278699#c1 Joachim Plack <jplack@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jplack@novell.com AssignedTo|odabrunz@novell.com |aosthof@novell.com Component|YaST2 |YaST2 Product|openSUSE 10.2 |openSUSE 11.0 Version|Final |unspecified --- Comment #1 from Joachim Plack <jplack@novell.com> 2007-10-12 09:29:03 MST --- Idea will be included apropriately into Code11 Bootloader environment structure (in perl-Bootloader) -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=278699 Alexander Osthof <aosthof@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=278699 User aosthof@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=278699#c2 Alexander Osthof <aosthof@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|aosthof@novell.com |jreidinger@novell.com Status|ASSIGNED |NEW --- Comment #2 from Alexander Osthof <aosthof@novell.com> 2008-07-14 07:31:30 MDT --- Reassigning to new maintainer of perl-Bootloader. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=278699 Josef Reidinger <jreidinger@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED Found By|Customer |Beta-Customer Priority|P5 - None |P4 - Low -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=278699 User jreidinger@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=278699#c3 Josef Reidinger <jreidinger@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED --- Comment #3 from Josef Reidinger <jreidinger@novell.com> 2008-08-15 07:01:46 MDT --- done in perl-Bootloader 0.4.68. Let's wait for another bug which want revert :) -- 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.
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