On 2013-01-29 17:49 (GMT+1100) Basil Chupin composed:
The only trouble is is that grub legacy is no longer supported, and the
I see "no longer supported" as applied to Grub Legacy as no more than an excuse to switch to something more bloated and complicated just to provide a few growingly necessary features lacking from Grub Legacy. It's well known what it's limitations are. It needs no more development, so no more "support" beyond simply providing the same rpm and yast module as that for the past half decade or more. As an only bootloader option at installation time it's dead, but it's not ready to discard.
antagonism to switch to grub from grub legacy is sounding very much like the situation where people were (still are) arguing about KDE3 versus KDE4.
To me the parallel is quite striking. KDE3 and Grub Legacy both give me what I need without bloat or mutated or replaced paradigms. I agree that the value of GRUB2 is way,way overated. I have never seen an example of a useful scriipt. For openSUSE on a mulltiboot system - ev en with a boot manager - GRUB legacy does a ar better job of installing in the right partition, particularly in a extended volume. If openSUSE completely abandomed GRUB in favor of GRU2 (you can still select GRUB legacy during installation) as Fedora has I'm going to have to try using a CD ro install a bootloader What's the main
On 01/29/2013 02:02 AM, Felix Miata wrote: point of a bootloader anyway? It'st is to start the boot process in a few seconds. I use LILO ato boot Debian. Works iin a ftrfs root. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org