Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (475 mails)

[Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Freitag 08 August 2008 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
> The Wednesday 2008-08-06 at 18:34 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > Stanislav, I took this posting to be a sort of RFC, not just an
> > announcement that support for lilo has been dropped. How should it
> > really be understood?
>
> I understand they discussed and decided internally. This is done. They
> only inform us of a decided and done fact. Probably economics reasons. :-(

This is a "we tried for years to keep both and we admit we failed" 
announcement. There is nothing to discuss unless someone has a bright
idea how to maintain so many bootloader setups with two pretty different
bootloaders without getting insane.

Greetings, Stephan

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