[Bug 302004] New: merge existing GRUB menu.lst for parallel installation
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=302004 Summary: merge existing GRUB menu.lst for parallel installation Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Beta 1 Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 10.3 Status: NEW Severity: Enhancement Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: tilman@imap.cc QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: Beta-Customer For my first test, I installed 10.3 Beta1 on a working openSUSE 10.2 system which has everything except /boot in LVM, by creating a new LVM logical volume for the 10.3 root partition and mounting the existing /boot partition without formatting. Despite the warning from YaST this works perfectly fine, but I had to merge the GRUB menu items for 10.2 from /boot/grub/menu.lst.old into /boot/grub/menu.lst manually, whereafter the 10.2 installation also boots fine again. As this is rather convenient for testing, I'd like to suggest that this be done automatically, ie. if the installation procedure finds an existing menu.lst it should preserve its entries and just add a new one in front of them. Also, the strong warning against mounting existing partitions without reformatting them could, at least in the case of /boot, be toned down a bit. -- 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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Matej Horvath
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Thomas Fehr
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Joachim Plack
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Joachim Plack
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