Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (475 mails)

[Jiri Srain <jsrain@xxxxxxx>]

Hi!

Dne Thursday 31 of July 2008 19:59:19 Richard (MQ) napsal(a):
> 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?

Other platforms than i386 and x86_64 will not be affected by this change, as 
mentioned in Stano's mail. So, there will be no change on PPC.

Jiri

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Regards,

Jiri Srain
YaST Team Leader
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