On Fri, 06 Nov 2009, 17:25:43 +0100, Manfred Hollstein wrote:
On Fri, 06 Nov 2009, 17:10:51 +0100, Frank Steiner wrote:
Ok, I'm getting confused completely :-) What do I need to specify to install grub on the root partition and activate it?
I now thought that this should work:
<bootloader> <global> <activate>true</activate>
false false </global>root grub </bootloader>but this ends up with a bios error message that there is no OS on the hard disk, or on a second host it boots with "L 99 99 99 99".
No wonder, as per
false false you instructed AY to NOT touch your MBR. Have a look at http://www.suse.de/~ug/autoyast_doc/CreateProfile.Bootloader.html and you'll see that for your particular situation you just need:
true true Thus, the MBR is getting crapped somehow. How do I tell AY to install grub to my root partition and setup the MBR such that it boots from the activated partition?
See above and/or at the URL.
hmm, if you had left your initial message quoted, I wouldn't have written this reply... To understand your requirements correctly: - There's an MBR on the disk which you want to leave intact - The MBR is able to boot the activated partition - The Linux installation should go in some arbitrary partition which should be activated by the bootloader-install Is this what you want? Cheers. l8er manfred -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org