Carlos E. R. wrote:
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.
I did not need to change anything. SuSE changed, the apps on my box did not change. Actually they did, but I did not need to change them; they continued to work as I needed. If I had had all of the libraries accessible, I would have simply rebuilt 9.1. That is a lesson: don't throw out anything.
If you want to use Linux (installing it yourself, not merely using it) you need to keep current in your knowledge.
Linux was a diversion for me. It was fun to play with and learn something about. My goal is to get something done. If I have to spend too much time with the OS to do that, I switch to something else. When the new BSD-based Mac OS appeared in about 2004 [?] on my PowerBook, and it looked a whole lot like Unix, that was the beginning of the end of linux for me. I remember booting up my PowerBook in the Apple store for the first time and going to / and seeing /bin, /opt/, /usr and I knew that was it.
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.
But this was my entire point. I have /two/ apps that need linux. I did not change them at all in 8 years. My main operating system is a Mac. /That/ changed a lot. And yet I still run Mac OS X 10.9 on a MacBook that I bought in 2006 and the installation is transparent. I don't feel desperate. -- Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey@earthlink.net "I'd Rather Be Sailing" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org