Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (661 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob OpenSuSE wrote:

> > > With Installer warning when a possibly broken boot partition is
> > > chosen by the expert user.
> >
> > Hmm, do we need to warn the _expert_ user?
>
> It would seem so, from reading this Mailing list.  Ways to get totally
> reliable configurations are ignored, and this results in trips to
> Bugzilla.

Maybe we just need a two-step change into Expert mode:

1) Choose Simple or Expert mode
2) Are you sure you are an expert? Yes|No

:-)

> > > lilo - http://freshmeat.net/projects/lilo/
> > > * static - uses map files
> > > * confused end users even when it was most popular boot method
> > > - poor diagnostics on failure
> > > - poor recovery on failure
> > > - less friendly config file than GRUB 0.97
> >
> > Rob, your bias is showing :-). Let me add some positive points:
> >
> > * just works, hardly ever fails.
> > * easy text-file config
> > * tried and tested.
>
> No, lilo(8) never "just worked" for people with less stable systems.

But it does just work for people with more stable systems and also for
experienced people with less stable ditto. 
Rob, that is not a useful argument _unless_ we assume that the majority
of openSUSE users have unstable or often changing systems. 
I'm not convinced that's a reasonable assumption to make.  In fact, I
think most people have stable systems, because they need to work on or
with them.


/Per

-- 
Per Jessen, Zürich (0.0°C)

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