Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (175 mails)

[Christian Boltz <opensuse@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

on Donnerstag, 31. Juli 2008, Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
> 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 

What about booting from a software RAID 1? The last time I tried (with 
10.3 IIRC), GRUB failed when / (including boot) was on a /dev/md* 
partition.

And there are still some "interesting" systems out there [1] which work 
with lilo, but don't with GRUB for various reasons.

> and it makes a lot of sense to focus on a single 
> solution and improve it. 

You say it ;-)

I'm not really against dropping lilo support - but please make sure that 
GRUB works on all systems. Booting from software RAID is a must-have 
IMHO. (Support for "interesting" systems would be nice, but isn't a 
must-have.)


Regards,

Christian Boltz

[1] mixed IDE+SCSI hard disks for example - a friend has such an 
    "interesting" system as home server (with openSUSE 10.2).
    I could probably flood bugzilla completely if I reported all the
    problems (not only caused by the harddisk layout) I hit with this 
    system ;-)) (and lots of those bugreports would be closed as "not 
    reproducable" I guess - sometimes I wonder myself why something 
    fails on this machine. Maybe I should search for the "manufactured
    by BOFH" label...)

-- 
Ich selbst benutze kweather nicht (ich guck einfach aus dem Fenster).
[Hartmut Meyer in suse-linux]
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