On 06/11/09 02:10, Greg Freemyer wrote:

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The below discusses the technical issues of resolving the multi-boot issues with other pre-installed linux distros. The conclusion seems to be it is not feasible to address without delaying 11.2 beyond reason.

It does NOT mention how to mitigate the damage from the fact that we have a major issue that many testers will hit. The answer is very aggressive notification to testers and a well documented process of how to fix the issues that occur.

Even with as short a remaining time as there is I believe there is time to address those to issues.

I have not even read one message about this issue prior to this thread, but if it is as major as it sounds below, then I strongly urge the project leaders to evaluate the issue mitigation strategies as opposed to their issue resolution strategies.

Greg

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Josef Reidinger wrote:

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I want to play the voting game one last time for 11.2. For 11.1 many complained that the quality was too bad to ship. For 11.2 I want to test something: collect your votes. I created

I voted no, but didn't get a change to comment.... Bug 548993 is one I'd consider a showstopper bug https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=548993 Grub cannot find ANY other installed Linux. This is a really serious bug... one that, if it's allowed to be in the final release, will REALLY make openSUSE look bad. When you install 11.2 on a system with other Linux versions already installed, the 11.2 installer cannot find them or configure Grub correctly, and you end up with a Grub that knows only 11.2. You cannot booth the other installed OSes unless you run a repair/recover from one of the other installed Linux versions' install DVD. At this point.. we are going to ship 11.2 with this "feature"!

For me... it doesen't bother me on my own hardware as I run only openSUSE, and will be using only 11.2. For anyoen else.. especially those who are considering using openSUSE, or those who need to use multiple installs.. we're going to look so so so bad when they run into this :-(

As I said in the bug report, I'd call this one a release blocker bug if I was the release manager.

C.

Hi, I agree with you that it is regression and annoying. Problem is that it is found too late in release process and boot is quite sensitive and complex to do it properly (you can look at it in yast svn how we propose sections- http://svn.opensuse.org/svn/yast/trunk/bootloader/src/modules/BootGRUB.ycp function CreateSections). So if we wait until this bug is fixed and also properly tested (just imagine possible combination of supported boot scenarios on different raids and partitions) it takes really serious time which delay 11.2 for more then month or two. Of course another problem described by Jozef in bug is that other distributions change and we don't have enough time to test it ( our priority is at first boot opensuse, then successful boot after update and then cooperate with other operation systems ). Our resources is limited, but I promise that if you send patch which fix problem I review it and send comments (or add it immediately if it is good enough).

Josef

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The emphasis re this bug is limited to other *Linux* systems not being recognised. Last week after I returned from interstate I did the very basic, quick and nasty, installation of XP and then installed openSUSE RC2. Grub had no trouble with recognising XP and I can boot into it. I agree that the, say, Release Notes, must contain a *very* visible statement about the bug in grub but it should also minimise the bad PR by stating that it only affects people who already have another *Linux* operating system. BC -- The chief cause of problems is solutions. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org