Hi
today i had a typical installation problem that should be maintained better
since its a stopper for unexperienced users:
dualboot with suse 10.2 and WinXP .. there was a Windows-Reinstall ( of
course) that broke the boot-loader ..
-> so i booted installation-DVD to recover it
ok have to choose "New Installation" .. why this .. i dont want to .. ok
anyway .. hidden therein is the recovery-function ( should be a mainmenu-item
instead)
i only want to recover the bootloader .. but suse wants the check all
available filesystems .. which used to be clean anyway .. so checking them
took useless ages
going through further useless checkings .. like "fstab-entries seems to be
incorrect" , where the are NOT (ignoring wont get by this popup) .. the
recovery of the bootloader failed .. leaving a unexperienced user with a
non-working system ( win32 only :-( )
after rebooting into rescue-system, mounting the root-partition .. setting
grub-config-file , root and run the setup within grub .. this issue was
solved .. but it sucks , since unexperienced users cannot do this on their
own
a friend i tried to switch to linux said .. this is definitly a showstopper
for him , because windows-reinstalls are monthly/quaterly tasks , and without
support from me he couldnt finish this ..
so "Linux sucks" just because lacking a simple clean and working
boot-loader-recovery .. (thats not my opinion :-))
please , its very important to bring this to a working release , or else SuSE
will miss a lot new Users
also i think that a "recovery system" should be more like a minimal live-cd
with a good task-related-gui .. but just a basic shell with important
features missing
best regards
-c-
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