[yast-devel] YaST Bootloader now calls grub2-install directly without going through perl-Bootloader?
While looking at another problem I notice that in TW YaST2 Bootloader module appears to call grub2-install directly, instead of calling perl-Bootloader. Not only that, but it also called grub2-install where there was *no* change in bootloader location, so simple grub2-mkconfig would be sufficient. Is it intentional? This looks like step backward, actually. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: yast-devel+owner@opensuse.org
On 05/10/2016 05:36 AM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
While looking at another problem I notice that in TW YaST2 Bootloader module appears to call grub2-install directly, instead of calling perl-Bootloader. Not only that, but it also called grub2-install where there was *no* change in bootloader location, so simple grub2-mkconfig would be sufficient. Is it intentional? This looks like step backward, actually.
Dropping perl-Bootloader and calling grub2-install and grub2-mkconfig directly is intentional. There are plans to drop perl-Bootloader from the distribution entirely. About the extra call to grub2-install, is it harmful? Cheers. -- Ancor González Sosa YaST Team at SUSE Linux GmbH -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: yast-devel+owner@opensuse.org
Hi, to give some background: The value for perl-Bootlader was to shield the fact that we support multiple different bootloaders from YaST, as well as various scripts (e.g. kernel post-install script). Withe the move to GRUB2 as the only supported bootloader - on all architectures (well, it is not always exactly the same, but it is configured the same way), this layer is not necessary any more. Since it was very complex, it also came with its portion of entries in our bzilla. With calling GRUB directly and focusing on a single bootloader, the whole stack got much simpler, which, after some initial tuning, will hopefully reduce the bug load. Jiri On 10.5.2016 07:35, Ancor Gonzalez Sosa wrote:
On 05/10/2016 05:36 AM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
While looking at another problem I notice that in TW YaST2 Bootloader module appears to call grub2-install directly, instead of calling perl-Bootloader. Not only that, but it also called grub2-install where there was *no* change in bootloader location, so simple grub2-mkconfig would be sufficient. Is it intentional? This looks like step backward, actually. Dropping perl-Bootloader and calling grub2-install and grub2-mkconfig directly is intentional. There are plans to drop perl-Bootloader from the distribution entirely.
About the extra call to grub2-install, is it harmful?
Cheers.
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On 2016-05-10 05:36, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
While looking at another problem I notice that in TW YaST2 Bootloader module appears to call grub2-install directly, instead of calling perl-Bootloader. Not only that, but it also called grub2-install where there was *no* change in bootloader location, so simple grub2-mkconfig would be sufficient. Is it intentional? This looks like step backward, actually.
Yes, it is intention. Regarding no change in bootloader location. The majority use case for running yast2 bootloader on running system is when there is a problem with booting, so yast2 bootloader do everything to make sure system will boot even calling grub2-install as there is no 100% working solution to detect that grub2 stage1 is properly installed and it should be harmless to write new stage1 code, or am I wrong? Josef -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: yast-devel+owner@opensuse.org
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