Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (341 mails)

["Hans-Peter Holler" <holler@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Mittwoch 04 Februar 2009 schrieb Eberhard Moenkeberg:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Hans-Peter Holler wrote:
> > > That would not help.
> > > A "native" OpenSUSE/SLES/SLED system just has one kernel to boot.
> > > And if it does't, you won't reach your backups with ease.
> >
> > No, even with old LILO you can manage to choose a kernel image, initrd
> > and parameters to boot an older (the one that's present before the
> > update, see above) kernel. And this should enable you to reach your
> > backups and restore them.
>
> Surely, "forever young" LILO can manage multiple kernels.
mkinitrd does this for you _if_ you install/update with plain rpm.
And, of course, grub and lilo take what you want from them.
The question is; do you really trust in higher level software like you or 
zypper?
> But the recent OpenSUSE/SLES/SLED mechanisms will delete your kernel
> before installing the new.
bugzilla?
> So you have to take your hands on at the right time, or YOU/zypper will
> fuck you off.
> This behaviour is contrary to the YaST philosophy - after just you have
> reached to feel the comfort of YaST, it will kick you into the ass.
maybe the yast developers are reading this. _my_ experience: yast rocks, the 
other: ... 
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