Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (175 mails)

["Richard (MQ)" <osl2008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
> Hi!
>
> As some of you've noticed, the bootloader configuration in openSUSE was not 
> in 
> best shape for a couple of releases. Therefore, we plan to drop the support 
> for lilo bootloader from YaST (and thus installation) and leave grub as the 
> only supported bootloader on i386 and x86_64 in openSUSE 11.1. 
>
> The reason is that there are almost no technical advantages to keep both 
> bootloaders and it makes a lot of sense to focus on a single solution and 
> improve it. As part of this strategy, we also want to document bootloader 
> deployment strategies that are supported by the YaST code and where the users 
> should expect the code to work reliably.
>
> The change will mean:
>
> 1) YaST bootloader code for lilo will be dropped
> 2) YaST installation will offer to not install any bootloader, so an 
> experienced user can use this to install lilo manually
> 3) kernel packages will be unable to adapt lilo configuration automatically, 
> this needs to be done manually after installing a new kernel package
>
> Any feedback appreciated.


What about PPC platforms? I assume yaboot will continue to be supported?
-- 
Cheers
Richard (MQ)
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