Sorry for the confusion, but I open a separate thread for this bug
now, because it does not depend on the <global> parameters in the
profile as I wrote before (the subject was meant to be "bug with timeout",
not "but with timeout" :-))
It seems like the timeout value for lilo.conf get's a "0" added
whenever it is read in YaST. On some systems it grows above the
allowed value, on others not (that's why I thought it was depending
on the global values).
My bootloader profile is only this:
<bootloader>
lilo
/dev/sda
<location>custom</location>
</bootloader>
Nothing about the timeout option. But the generated lilo.conf I find:
timeout = 80000
causing AY to throw an error.
In y2log I find those lines very interesting:
2009-04-17 17:28:03 <1> sunserver2(4672) [YCP] BootLILO.ycp:163 Proposed globals: $["default":"SUSE_Linux", "gfxmenu":"/boot/message", "prompt":"1", "timeout":"8"]
...
2009-04-17 17:59:14 <1> sunserver2(4672) [YCP] bootloader/routines/lib_iface.ycp:228 Read global settings: $["default":"Linux", "gfxmenu":"/boot/message", "lines_cache_id":"4", "prompt":"1", "stage1_dev":"/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-3600508e0000000001d57ab1ae1a97a05", "timeout":"800"]
...
2009-04-17 17:59:26 <1> sunserver2(4672) [YCP] bootloader/routines/lib_iface.ycp:208 Storing global settings $["default":"Linux", "lines_cache_id":"4", "prompt":"1", "stage1_dev":"/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-3600508e0000000001d57ab1ae1a97a05", "timeout":"800"]
...
2009-04-17 17:59:35 <1> sunserver2(4672) [YCP] bootloader/routines/lib_iface.ycp:228 Read global settings: $["default":"Linux", "lines_cache_id":"2", "prompt":"1", "stage1_dev":"/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-3600508e0000000001d57ab1ae1a97a05", "timeout":"8000"]
I didn't find the "80", but it seems like a 0 is added for a "write-read"
cycle.
This is a real stopper, because as far as I understand I cannot alter
the lilo.conf file before lilo is called once, only after it (with
a chroot script), but I don't get there as AY hangs before. Any idea
what I could do?
If you think it's not an AY but a YaST bug, I can file a support
request via the Novell SLES Support if that helps getting resources
to work on it. I've done that for the problem with the unsigned
repositories where you assumed that it was a problem in YaST/the
installer.
Maybe we get enough stuff for a driverupdate? :-) This bug, the
ignored <global> options, the wrong windows section (see last mail
in "AY changes types of existing partitions"), the unsigned repositories,
and then, maybe, also the partition_id thing ;-)
cu,
Frank
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