-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 2009-12-08 at 16:59 -0000, Rob OpenSuSE wrote:
2009/12/8 Greg KH <>:
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 11:15:17AM -0500, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
So who wants to help test? :)
What about using syslinux instead? That's what some distros are thinking of moving to instead of GRUB2 in the near future...
The Syslinux Project covers lightweight bootloaders for MS-DOS FAT filesystems (SYSLINUX), network booting (PXELINUX), bootable "El Torito" CD-ROMs (ISOLINUX), and Linux ext2/ext3 filesystems (EXTLINUX). The project also includes MEMDISK, a tool to boot legacy operating systems (such as DOS) from nontraditional media; it is usually used in conjunction with PXELINUX and ISOLINUX.
Looks like using syslinux drops support for reiserfs, xfs, ext4 at moment.
To me, I'm happy using a /boot partition that's ext2, nevermind ext3. Fedora configures a small /boot partition, going that route, and having YaST Boot loader do mount /boot or mount -oremount,rw /boot as appropriate would reduce complexity.
Something that concerned me, about the Unbuntu GRUB2 was it using config files in /etc, and then a binary file in /boot. That seems to make it harder to consolidate /boot amongst several installations of same & different distro's, as the Master /etc *must* be present.
What about lilo? >:-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkse6+4ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WoeACfbQ5lGvCxb65zN6gd0RX13tlW a50An2TKJqVPRud0hfcbkcyhFgkG4T3l =g1rD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----