[opensuse] Re: grub no longer being maintained? so Suse drops support for XFS boot?
Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
On 12/06/09 10:16, Carlos E. R. wrote: But not sufficient people complained when they decided
that, to save costs :-(
Maybe because nobody really uses it anymore ?
Well, for the record, I have to. Grub doesn't work on my system at all. (openSUSE 11.1 32bit on x86_64 hardware w/ 2 750GB disks.) openSUSE 11.1 installation lead to an unbootable system, and also subsequent manual installation could not bring it to work. (And yes, I'm fairy knowledgable about x86 boot management. When I started to use Linux, ca. 0.99.4, one had to.) Dunno if Grub2 would have worked, lilo did it without any problems and was at least still on SUSE's distribution DVD, although not supported by SuSEconfig. At first this meant that I had to take a bit more care during kernel updates, no really big deal. Then kernel updates made impossible my usage of VMware Server 1 -- after that I stopped applying kernel updates at all... Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, 2009-06-13 at 09:41 +0200, Joachim Schrod wrote:
Dunno if Grub2 would have worked, lilo did it without any problems and was at least still on SUSE's distribution DVD, although not supported by SuSEconfig.
At least, it is there...
At first this meant that I had to take a bit more care during kernel updates, no really big deal. Then kernel updates made impossible my usage of VMware Server 1 -- after that I stopped applying kernel updates at all...
You have to re-run the vmware setup program after a kernel update. This recompiles some modules, asks some silly questions, and then the server works as always. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkozZSQACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WJgQCfdSP9PVhkPvMfD5THjs2XJTSg 8WQAn1WN829c7glZe3BkX1DaZ5X7UJgX =jvm3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, 2009-06-13 at 09:41 +0200, Joachim Schrod wrote:
Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
On 12/06/09 10:16, Carlos E. R. wrote: But not sufficient people complained when they decided
that, to save costs :-(
Maybe because nobody really uses it anymore ?
Well, for the record, I have to. Grub doesn't work on my system at all. (openSUSE 11.1 32bit on x86_64 hardware w/ 2 750GB disks.)
I knew... We had a long discussion. Many people said that surely there were scenarios in which lilo was still needed and where grub would not work. Useless. Deaf. They just wanted to save costs and dumped lilo, no matter what damages were caused to others. You should have your issue reported on bugzilla, so that there is written record. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEUEARECAAYFAkozZqoACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UGFACggDI4HHQzW7d7BRNC0Y5rsMBU tLgAmN6QUUi+Bo3y6gtj0RliOGVBPaA= =TpoW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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Joachim Schrod