Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3464 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

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
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