On 08/06/2007 10:22 AM, Lukas Ocilka wrote:

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- Warn user if the /boot partition is too small (less than 64 MB, resp. 200 on IA64). User can either cancel updating or confirm it despite the risk of possible failure (#258563).

Say what? Why on earth does /boot need to be so large? -- Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. -- François de La Rochefoucauld --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

On 8/6/07, Stephen Shaw wrote:

Maybe / maybe not the place to ask, but what would be the technical reason for making a /boot partition? I make one out of habit as a result of getting it in before the first 4 gigs of the hard drive from the good old days.

As of today GRUB can't read/boot the Linux kernel from a LVM volume. So if you use LVM you have no choice and have to use a separate /boot partition. Or when I use Xen I always set up a separate /boot partitions on all my domU without a journaling filesystem. Warm Regards, Claes Backstrom --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

On 08/08/2007 02:30 AM, Lukas Ocilka wrote:

Darryl Gregorash wrote:

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On 08/06/2007 10:22 AM, Lukas Ocilka wrote:

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<snip> ------------------------------------------------------------------- Wed Jul 18 08:53:15 CEST 2007 - locilka@suse.cz

- Warn user if the /boot partition is too small (less than 64 MB, resp. 200 on IA64). User can either cancel updating or confirm it despite the risk of possible failure (#258563).

Say what? Why on earth does /boot need to be so large?

Honestly, I don't know exactly 'why' IA64 recommends at lest 200 MB. Other system need just only 64 MB... But it's only a warning, you can skip it and continue upgrading.

Anyway, you had better see the bugzilla bug #258563 (mentioned in the change-entry). It isn't just the 100MB I am asking about. Even after reading the bug, I cannot understand why the need for 64MB (and apparently that applies even to an ext2 filesystem). With everything included, ie. the kernel, initrd, the system map, and grub, one kernel takes up 3.9MB on my system. What needs the remaining 60MB?

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Sid Boyce wrote:

Lukas Ocilka wrote:

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Sid Boyce wrote:

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Confusing as it says it can't update from an existing 10.3 to another, e.g trying to go from Alpha6 to Alpha7. Did a 10.2 YOU on another box, but it doesn't appear there as an option. What's it for, feature not yet working perhaps? Regards Sid.

You probably (definitely) don't have the latest yast2-update package...

Alpha6: yast2-update-2.15.14-4.i586.rpm

Alpha7: yast2-update-2.15.19-2.i586.rpm yast2-update-FACTORY-2.15.19-2.i586.rpm

This is part of the package-changelog:

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- Package has been split into two: yast2-update and yast2-update-FACTORY (System/FACTORY update) (FATE #302017). - 2.15.18

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- Warn user if the /boot partition is too small (less than 64 MB, resp. 200 on IA64). User can either cancel updating or confirm it despite the risk of possible failure (#258563). - Fixed update_proposal to warn 'non-matching versions' only in case the update is performed on a running system. - More debugging for device-names translation during upgrade. - 2.15.15

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Please, update to the latest packages first.

http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/suse/i5...

(or PPC or x86_64...)

Bye Lukas

Thanks, on i586, those are the 2 I have seen dependency problems with, I shall try installing by hand and go on from there. Regards Sid.

I have updated both the above packages, but nothing has changed. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org