Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (475 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Friday 2008-08-01 at 17:12 +0200, Jiri Srain wrote:

> 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.

How would that be possible? Remember that the installation CD can no longer 
boot the installed system, so the problem complexity is doubled.

- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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