[Bug 466037] New: YaST needlessly renames existing Windows-GRUB-entries at system installation.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466037 Summary: YaST needlessly renames existing Windows-GRUB-entries at system installation. Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: RC 2 Platform: x86 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Minor Priority: P5 - None Component: Bootloader AssignedTo: jsrain@novell.com ReportedBy: schaefer.frank@gmx.net QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121300 SUSE/3.0.5-2.5 Firefox/3.0.5 When making a clean installation or upgrading to openSUSE 11.0/11.1, YaST renames an existing GRUB-menu-entry for a Windows-OS. Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: Install openSUSE 11.0 or 11.1 on a machine with an existing GRUB-bootloader and an existing menu entry for Windows. Actual Results: Existing menu entry is renamed to "windows1". I don't know if this happens when YaST detects only 1 Windows partition (see bug 449928). Expected Results: Existing non-Linux-entries should not be renamed. Also see bug 449928 -- 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=466037 User jsrain@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466037#c1 Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |schaefer.frank@gmx.net --- Comment #1 from Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> 2009-01-14 08:17:11 MST --- When you are doing a clean installation, there is no section before which you can rename - the whole bootloader setup, incuding all sections, is created anew. YaST does not look for previous bootloader configuration - it may be pretty outdated and it would lead to many trouble. You write 'When making a clean installation or upgrading to openSUSE 11.0/11.1', what exactly do you mean? Clean installation (which means that we can hardly do anything about this bug) or upgrade (here the name shold be preserved)? (regarding bootloader configuration, those are two completly different processes) Can you attach the installation/update logs? -- 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=466037 User schaefer.frank@gmx.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466037#c2 --- Comment #2 from Frank Schäfer <schaefer.frank@gmx.net> 2009-01-14 11:55:47 MST --- "Clean installation" should mean installation on a formatted root device. I had big problems during upgrade to 11.1, so I made several installation-attempts. Hopefully the attached file contains the necessary informations... If not, I can optionally setup a test system. -- 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=466037 User schaefer.frank@gmx.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466037#c3 Frank Schäfer <schaefer.frank@gmx.net> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW --- Comment #3 from Frank Schäfer <schaefer.frank@gmx.net> 2009-01-14 12:22:55 MST --- Created an attachment (id=265112) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=265112) YaST-logs -- 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=466037 User jsrain@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466037#c4 Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Info Provider|schaefer.frank@gmx.net | Resolution| |INVALID --- Comment #4 from Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> 2009-01-15 00:25:56 MST --- The attached log is from normal installation. As I said, YaST does not read the bootloader configuration at all in this scenario (it hardly can, since it needs some stuff on the installed system in a particular version), this bug is not valid, there is no renaming at all. While I agree that there could be more reasonable name proposal if it was possible to detect Windows version, there is no way to keep the section. If you can provide log of failed update to 11.1, please, open a separate bug and attach logs from the update. -- 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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