Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (475 mails)

[Jiri Srain <jsrain@xxxxxxx>]

Dne Tuesday 05 of August 2008 12:07:00 Carlos E. R. napsal(a):
> 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.

As I wrote, you can install with GRUB and switch to LILO later.

And, I think that booting a system from hard disk it still works via Linuxrc 
(but I have not checked this in 11.1 Alpha).

Jiri

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Regards,

Jiri Srain
YaST Team Leader
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