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] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org