On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 02:15:56PM -0500, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
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On 12/09/2009 02:08 PM, Rob OpenSuSE wrote:
2009/12/9 jdd <jdd@dodin.org>:
and on a server you can't get a hand on or with no screen, the Grub boot editor is not that usefull...
But it does no harm. So actually the point is irrelevant, and if you need console access for some reason, GRUB's runtime flexibility helps.
Exactly. My development nodes are rack mounted in my basement. I'm sure you can imagine that, as a kernel developer, I reboot rather often and things don't always go smoothly during the boot process.
I have 6 releases of SLES and openSUSE on each node. Each instance has its own /boot (in the root fs) and shares a /machboot grub instance which chainloads grub from the root fs of the install I'm booting.
Yeah, similar here. I don't want to miss the flexibility of grub when installing multiple systems on test machines either. In particular since I frequently need to install test instances and want to do this with as little manual intervention as possible. Having LVM support and not requiring a separate /boot would bring me even closer to this goal. So grub2 seems to be an option worth exploring. I'm not sure why syslinux has even brought up here. In the entire thread I did not see a real argument for it except the killall one: 'other distros consider using it' - someone else is making or has made or is making the decision for us. It would be nice if this discussion would center around what features we need for openSUSE (from servers to whatever ultraportable devices) and what bootloader would be the most likely one to deliver them instead of everyone advocating her/his pet bootloader. Moreover this might give us the chance to finally go and simplify the maze of a the bootloader configuration we currently have at openSUSE.
All this is done remotely via serial console and using the grub runtime tool works perfectly for me.
Lucky guy. Almost none of my test machines has serial still. Cheers, Egbert. -- Egbert Eich (Res. & Dev.) SUSE LINUX Products GmbH X Window System Development Tel: +49 911-740 53 0 http://www.suse.de ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org