[sles-beta] Beta10 - Autoyast

[Josef Reidinger]

On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 13:32:21 +0000
"Ronny Pretzsch" <ronny.pretzsch at dfs.de> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Thank you for the new beta 10.
> 
> 
> Bad News:
> =========
> (1)
> First try with our autoyast.xml failed: The system did not reboot
> into stage 2. The reason was that the /boot Partition was not
> activated. I already reported this here some weeks ago.
> 
> A workaround is to set "activate" explicitly in autoyast.xml:
>     <bootloader>
>       <global>
>         <activate>true</activate>
>         <boot_boot>true</boot_boot>
>         <generic_mbr>true</generic_mbr>
>       </global>
>       <loader_type>grub2</loader_type>
>       <sections config:type="list"/>
>     </bootloader>
> 
> In SLES11 "activate" was obviously true by default. Why not in SLES12?
> In the manual Yast GUI it is pre-selected, so it should be default in
> autoyast. (We do not use btrfs, we use LVM, ext-filesystems and a
> separate boot partition) But we can live with it.
> 
> 

Please report this problem. Looks like wrong proposal in case of
missing part of autoyast profile. In SLES11 it was not by default
active, but according to storage if it is needed.

Josef

> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ronny Pretzsch
> 
> Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH