On Wednesday, 3 January 2007 12:35, James Knott wrote:

I have also experienced the profile problem and reported it here last week. It appears to be broken in 10.2. What would be nice, would be to have a default that can be overridden at boot. In previous versions, if you set a default in Grub, you couldn't select another profile at boot. If you didn't have a default in Grub, you returned to the previous profile, unless you changed during boot. Currently it's just broken.

Ahhh. Thanks. I missed that when searching throught the archives. I agree on the "over-ride default" option: that would be nice. Again, thanks. We were at wit's end here trying to roll this out on new laptops. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Mark Goldstein wrote:

On 1/3/07, Sargon wrote:

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On Wednesday, 3 January 2007 12:35, James Knott wrote:

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I have also experienced the profile problem and reported it here last week. It appears to be broken in 10.2. What would be nice, would be to have a default that can be overridden at boot. In previous versions, if you set a default in Grub, you couldn't select another profile at boot. If you didn't have a default in Grub, you returned to the previous profile, unless you changed during boot. Currently it's just broken.

Ahhh. Thanks. I missed that when searching throught the archives.

I agree on the "over-ride default" option: that would be nice.

Again, thanks. We were at wit's end here trying to roll this out on new laptops. --

I've checked it on my laptop with OpenSuSE 10.2 and it works exactly as Mathias wrote: F3 on Grub screen allows profile selection.

Well, there's at least a couple who find it doesn't work. Where can we look for a likely cause of this problem? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On 1/4/07, Sargon wrote:

On Thursday, 4 January 2007 06:35, James Knott wrote:

And the F3 does work for us on some machines (not all), but that was not the original problem I asked about.

I understood from what James wrote on his system it does not work at all.

In previous versions one could manually add the parameters (i.e., PROFILE=profile_name) into and > GRUB's menu.list, thus building a nice boot menu for different environments. Those parameters are ignored in 10.2, which means training users that there will be a different way to boot the laptop (and more calls to the help desk, frustration for end-users: not a pretty situation).

I unpacked /boot/message of my laptop: cpio -i