On 2014-06-22 00:06, Tony Alfrey wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote: <snip>
Summary: If I knew that I could DUMP grub, and write a lilo.config file that has worked for 10 years, and run /sbin/lilo, and that would eliminate grub from the process, I would do it.
You can, if you wish and insist.
But it will create other problems on the road for you.
And what will those problems be?
Who knows? Anytime you need to update some component, if you depart widely from the distribution defaults, like using a component that is not really supported in YaST (lilo), your system can break. And few people will be able to help. Any departure from defaults adds work on your shoulders. Instead of letting YaST do it, you have to do it yourself. It is Linux, you can do almost anything with it, but... you have to work on it.
Please recall that this has been the set-up that I've used since SuSE 9.1 was actually "new", and has only now become a problem because of a hardware failure.
Understood. But Linux changes a lot. From 9.1 till now there have been many changes, and you have not kept track of them. Trying to apply what you knew then to the current distribution creates problems. If you want to use Linux (installing it yourself, not merely using it) you need to keep current in your knowledge. Similarly with Windows: XP users, now forced to change to Windows 8, feel desperate. Linux changes even more, constantly, in usually small steps; but many. In five years, the differences are huge. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)