The last kernel update for openSUSE 10.2 showed a couple of bugs (see bugreport #252911) in the code that updates the bootloader configuration after a kernel update. We have tried to fix all of them and did internal testing - and fixed further bugs encountered during the internal testing. Now we're confident that we have fixed everything we tested ;-) - but would like to have the code tested in many more environments. Therefore I've created a repository that contains a new perl-Bootloader package and a new kernel. The new kernel contains as most interesting feature the re-enablement of CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS - and also a small number of bugfixes. For me it's most interesting to have the kernel so that you can test that the bootloader rewrite works ;-) Please add the following URL as repository for testing: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/aj/10.2-bootloader-test Please install *first* the perl-bootloader patch and then *afterwards* the kernel patch. Scenarios to test: ------------------ * openSUSE 10.2 & 10.3 (Alpha) installed with - /boot primary partition - /boot logical partition - / primary partition - / logical partition - persistent device links (default) - LVM proposal - EVMS proposal - fakeraid * Various architectures (i386, x86_64, ...) * Various bootloaders (GRUB, LILO, ...) * Update/install/remove kernels with rpm - Will new boot entries be created/removed? - Will new entries be inserted on top (e.g. in menu.lst)? - In case of default/smp/bigsmp kernels, will failsafe entries be created? - Is the label correct, thus "<Distribution> -- Kernel-<version-release>"? * Handling of default entries - New kernels should only become default if the kernel referring to the former default entry has the same flavour (e.g. 'smp' or 'xen') * System must be bootable ;) Please report everything in bugzilla and mention that you used the 10.2-bootloader-test repository. Thanks for your help, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126