https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=252911 ------- Comment #77 from bjoern@cs.tu-berlin.de 2007-04-25 14:02 MST ------- After repairing the Grub and Lilo configuration for more around 15 openSUSE users, I think, the bug is a major problem. Also repairing boot loaders does not work without pain in current openSUSE: 1) the new graphical rescue system o the openSUSE boot CD/DVD was unable to write a working Lilo or Grub configuration (/dev/hda was reported as a RAID device, may be same cause like for 3) 2) there are no backups for /etc/lilo.conf 3) the manual rescue system is hard to manage, because users have to bind-mount the devices (mount /dev /mnt/dev -o bind), otherwise "lilo -r /mnt -C /etc/lilo.conf does not work because of missing /mnt/dev/* device nodes), it's documented in the openSUSE Start manual, but it's unknown for most users 4) Yast could not create a new configuration automatically (it created two incomplete entries) Isn't it possible to downgrade to an older (working) kernel update method for openSUSE 10.2 updates? In theory, I think it's a good idea, to allow, that multiple kernels can write entries in lilo.conf or menu.lst. But I also do not want to loose the old default entries like "openSUSE XX.X", "Failsafe" or "Shipped". By the way: Where are the vmlinuz.shipped entries? "vmlinuz.shipped" probably never worked as expected, because it was only a copy of the initial "vmlinuz" and "initrd" files. Bootings with "vmlinuz.shipped" caused problems because of missing modules in /lib/modules if the kernel was updated. But it would be really good for rescue purposes to have a working "vmlinuz.shipped" installation with all /lib/modules/"shipped" modules. Especially the option "Boot installed system" from the openSUSE installation CD/DVD would work like expected, if there is 100% compatible /lib/modules/"shipped" directory. My preferred Grub/Lilo configuration would like like: 1) * openSUSE 10.2 (which points to the latest /boot/vmlinuz link) 2) openSUSE 10.2 Failsafe (which points to the latest /boot/vmlinuz link) 3) openSUSE.shipped (which points to the initial installed kernel and refers to modules which are 100% compatible to the boot CD/DVD) 4) all other installed kernels 5) Memtest86 *) default -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.