2009/12/11 Stefan Seyfried <stefan.seyfried@googlemail.com>:
2009/12/10 Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>:
If there is a situation where the supported boot loader doesn't work, it should be fixed. Lilo is a workaround.
only one linux partition, which is XFS, on a ThinkPad.
According to past discussion on this list, this is a "no no"! Jiri Strain - "Re: [opensuse-factory] XFS Boot Problem" http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2008-12/msg00009.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2008-12/msg00030.html Unfortunately due to the poor organisation of openSUSE.org, the paper written explaining boot configurations that work, I cannot find though I know it was included in an answer in the thread above. Are there any good reasons why there cannot be supported boot configurations : 1) Normal partitions or RAID1, / ext3/ext4 with /boot sub-directory 2) Normal partitons or RAID1, / "exotic" file system, with /boot small ext2/ext3/ext4 partition 3) ReiserFS, currently somewhat broken; fix desireable 4) LVM, currently "exotic"; direct support desirable 5) btrfs, currently "exotic"; direct support desirable With Installer warning when a possibly broken boot partition is chosen by the expert user. What are the reasons not to insist on a small /boot partition when using things like LVM (like Fedora install makes by default) or a filesystem that won't be reliably booted? To me it looks like in trying to be very flexible about it, the end-users end up with either non-boot or performance problems, described by Jeff when starting this thread. Putting together proposed Boot loader solutions in a summary GRUB 0.97 - no project * "tried & tested" limitations known * widely deployed x86 "standard", Linux, BSD & Solaris syslinux - http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/The_Syslinux_Project * few choices of filesystem support 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 Das U Boot - http://u-boot.sourceforge.net/ * small " typically U-Boot is stored in relatively small NOR flash memory * aimed at embedded, lacking "friendly" features for standard PCs GRUB2 * doubts about configuration * most likely to gain btrfs support, most filesystem choices today Summary page in Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_boot_loaders To me the strongest candidate to meet most of the requirements is GRUB2. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org