Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (528 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Volker Kuhlmann <list0570@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Is the 10.2 perl-Bootloader the same as for factory, or is that off
> topic here?

AFAIK it should be basically the same (factory perhaps with a few more
fixes).


> The kernel update produced at last a bootable system (with the exception
> of having to manually select the correct grub menu entry for booting, or
> editing menu.lst).
>
> Some of the details of the newly added entries are bad though (I left
> off the irrelevant parts):
>
> title openSUSE 10.2 - 2.6.18.8-0.3
>     root (hd1,4)
>     kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-0.3-default root=/dev/md0
>
> title Failsafe -- openSUSE 10.2 - 2.6.18.8-0.3
>     root (hd1,4)
>     kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-0.3-default root=/dev/md0
>
> This has been
>
> title openSUSE 10.2
>     root (hd0,4)
>     kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-0.1-default root=/dev/md0
>
> title openSUSE 10.2 (disk 2)
>     root (hd1,4)
>     kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-0.1-default root=/dev/md0
>
> for a very good reason: together with /etc/grub.conf
>
> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0) (hd0,4)
> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd1) (hd1,4)
>
> I get a boot loader installed on each of the two disks, so that when one
> disk gets removed from the raid1, the system still boots.

I suggest to file a bug,

Andreas
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