On 2012/02/13 16:47 (GMT+1100) Basil Chupin composed:
Sven Burmeister wrote:
AFAIK because openSUSE does not use GRUB2.
I ask this question with great trepidation and much quick-beating of the heart: why should openSUSE's Grub not see any systems using Grub2?
openSUSE's Grub isn't what puts stanzas from menu.lsts it finds during installation into the new openSUSE menu.lst it creates. YaST and/or perl-Bootloader or whatever combination of tools responsible for it all will have to be trained to parse Grub2's menu.cfg files and extract the info to build Legacy Grub stanzas from. That will require both the knowledge and available time investment to make happen, something I don't expect to see before such time as openSUSE devs choose to implement Grub2 fully. In the mean time, possibly someone could implement some minimal recognition in order to include simple chainloader entries to partitions found to have Grub2 installed. The problem with that is foreign distros almost always put the bootloader on the MBR, which openSUSE installation again won't be able to cope with until a full implementation is made, so only some foreign distros would ever make into menu.lst entries even via chainloader stanzas. I too don't like Grub2, which I feel is in many ways overkill, excessively demanding and complicated, besides being very foreign compared to Legacy Grub. openSUSE might be better off never adopting Grub2, possibly making use of AiR-Boot or something else in order to overcome Legacy Grub's limitations WRT RAID, GPT and whatever else the future will demand openSUSE better support. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org