[sles-beta] autoyast bootloader on Beta4

[Josef Reidinger]

On Fri, 2 May 2014 06:30:20 +0000
"Michael Baensch" <michael.baensch at dfs.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> we have a bug concerning autoyast.xml with lvm and bootloader.
> The stage one works fine but the system does not boot into stage two.
> "No Operating System found"
> We are using a generic mbr, a seperate /boot partition and LVM for
> all other partitons. We are using ext2 (due ext3 bug 3006)
> 
> Investigation shows that the /boot partition (/dev/vda1) is not
> flagged active. If setting /dev/vda1 manually active booting stage
> two succeeds.
> 
> It's a bug ?

Yes,
this looks like bug as we do some changes in bootloader and some parts
changed due to switch for grub2, but you have explicit <activate> flag,
so it should activate boot partition. If you can report and it and
attach logs, we can look why it is is not activated.

Thanks
Josef

> 
> Extracts from autoyast-xml:
> 
> ?xml version="1.0"?>
> <profile xmlns="http://www.suse.com/1.0/yast2ns"
> xmlns:config="http://www.suse.com/1.0/configns"> <bootloader>
>     <global>
>       <activate>true</activate>
>       <generic_mbr>true</generic_mbr>
>       <boot_mbr>false</boot_mbr>
>       <boot_boot>true</boot_boot>
>       <timeout config:type="integer">8</timeout>
>     </global>
>   </bootloader>
>   <deploy_image>
>     <image_installation
> config:type="boolean">false</image_installation> </deploy_image>
> ....
>   <partitioning config:type="list">
>     <drive>
>       <initialize config:type="boolean">true</initialize>
>       <partitions config:type="list">
>         <partition>
>           <create config:type="boolean">true</create>
>           <crypt_fs config:type="boolean">false</crypt_fs>
>           <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext2</filesystem>
>           <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
>           <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs>
>           <mount>/boot</mount>
>           <mountby config:type="symbol">label</mountby>
>           <label>boot</label>
>           <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id>
>           <partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr>
>           <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize>
>           <size>200M</size>
>         </partition>
>         <partition>
>           <create config:type="boolean">true</create>
>           <crypt_fs config:type="boolean">false</crypt_fs>
>           <lvm_group>system</lvm_group>
>           <partition_id config:type="integer">142</partition_id>
>           <partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr>
>           <size>max</size>
>         </partition>
>       </partitions>
>       <pesize></pesize>
>       <type config:type="symbol">CT_DISK</type>
>       <use>all</use>
>     </drive>
>     <drive>
>       <device>/dev/system</device>
>       <initialize config:type="boolean">true</initialize>
>       <partitions config:type="list">
>         <partition>
>           <create config:type="boolean">true</create>
>           <crypt_fs config:type="boolean">false</crypt_fs>
>           <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext2</filesystem>
>           <label>root</label>
>           <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
>           <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs>
>           <lv_name>root</lv_name>
>           <mount>/</mount>
>           <fstopt>acl</fstopt>
>           <mountby config:type="symbol">device</mountby>
>           <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id>
>           <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize>
>           <size>3G</size>
>         </partition>
>         <partition>
>           <create config:type="boolean">true</create>
>           <crypt_fs config:type="boolean">false</crypt_fs>
>           <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext2</filesystem>
> ....
> 
> Thanks
>  Michael
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