Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 60953
RFE: upgrade does not offer to keep GRUB password
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:40:49 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204 Description of problem: Choosing the Upgrade option in the installer and choosing GRUB as the boot loader doesn't offer an option to keep the existing GRUB password unchanged. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Do a minimal install of beta2, with grub as the boot loader, with a password. 2.Decide to install more packages, so start over and choose upgrade 3.Choose GRUB as the boot loader again. 4.Get to the GRUB password screen (in text mode) Actual Results: There's no option to keep the existing password unchanged. Expected Results: I wish there were such an option. Additional info: I haven't verified whether the original password is retained if I choose `No password'. I hope not, because it would be misleading at best.
It's not... this is because we don't actually preserve the grub config on an upgrade. Which is somewhat broken, but the changes to not do this weren't going to be ready for the accelerated Hampton schedule. Ugh :( I'll see what I can do on this later this week
I've changed the way bootloader configuration is handled on upgrades. Testing of this for the next beta would be much appreciated (basically, now you get a choice of just updating your current config, doing nothing, or creating a new config)
* test tree Skipkjack-re0320.0 i386 * test case i386/English/Worlstation/CDROM/GUI plus i386/English/Upgrade existing system/CDROM/GUI * test case i386/English/Upgrade/CDROM/GUI/From 7.2 - First instalation OK. Grub set up with password. - On the update from Skipjack to Skipjack, I selected to install further packages and the default bootloader option (Update existing installation). The update respected the Grub password. - On the update from 7.2 to Skipjack, update respected the Grub password.