Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (485 mails)

[Jozef Uhliarik <juhliarik@xxxxxxx>]

On Monday 07 of June 2010 15:59:23 C wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 15:38, Jozef Uhliarik <juhliarik@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > * adding other OSes with GRUB2 is not supported because GRUB2. There you
> > can wait for adding GRUB2 also to openSUSE.
>
> Agreed.. understand etc etc.
>
> > * adding other OSes with GRUB1 should be supported but it depends on GRUB
> > configuration in other OSes. if GRUB configuration is totally different
> > (different names of configuration files or different location of options
> > etc.) from SUSE GRUB configuration. it is not added.
>
> So.. that still doesn't tell anyone why.. it used to work.. and now it
> doesn't.  If someone could explain why this stopped working with
> 11.2.... was something intentionally removed?  Just no longer
> maintained due to lack of developer's or time, and it broke due to
> changes in Grub1 (a similar scenario to the demise of sax2)?  What
> changed?

There was added stricter checking if found (other) OS (it is not important if 
it SUSE or not) has valid configuration of bootloader (from SUSE view). The 
result is that there was solved problem with adding other installation of SUSE 
(in some cases) but other OSes (non SUSE) with different configuration was 
filtered out if configuration is not 100% parsed and valid.

> > * you are right there missing dual-boot configuration in
> > yast2-bootloader.
> >
> > * nobody block you to add new feature (openFATE) request for adding
> > dual-boot configuration to yast2-bootloader
> >
> > * next if you have problem with adding other OS (with GRUB1) to
> > bootloader configuration feel free to open new bug and we can start to
> > analyze problem
> >
> > * also you can feel free to send patch/fix for yast2-bootloader. ;-)
>
> There was a bug opened on this with 11.2RC. :-P

Yes and it includes a lot of comments with different problems but I know user 
is always right... ;-)
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