Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (475 mails)

[Jiri Srain <jsrain@xxxxxxx>]

Dne Friday 01 of August 2008 13:32:12 Per Jessen napsal(a):
> Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
> > 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
>
> How do you envisage this will work?  I.e. during a normal install, what
> will the experienced user need to do?  Swap to another console and
> create the lilo setup by hand etc?

Yes, this is exactly what will be needed. You can do it during installation or 
boot via the installation CD again and then do it in running system (which 
may be more comfortable, since you can use GRUB for the initial boot and 
switch to LILO afterwards.

Jiri


-- 
Regards,

Jiri Srain
YaST Team Leader
---------------------------------------------------------------------
SUSE LINUX, s.r.o.                             e-mail: jsrain@xxxxxxx
Lihovarska 1060/12                             tel: +420 284 028 959
190 00 Praha 9                                 fax: +420 284 028 951
Czech Republic                                 http://www.suse.cz