Felix Miata wrote:
On 2011/06/30 15:54 (GMT-0700) Greg KH composed:
So what have we done that break things that were not fixed?
Daily/constantly I'm reminded of https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=584493 on boxes running openSUSE kernels but not on openSUSE running vanilla kernels or in other distros.
Moving to grub, before it was ready... and thus dropping support for XFS for a while (not sure if it is officially supported again, yet, or not, but still seem to remember getting a message about boot problems with root on XFS in last install). and dropping support for booting from YOUR HARD DISK (instead of a RAM DISK); As a result of this, and not using the SUSE boot-ram-disk, with all it's hidden operations, I wasn't able to get output turned on the console until AFTER full boot (login prompt). With suse kernel -- got full kernel output during bootup, with a vanilla kernel booting with no-ram disk, was not able to get it to give any output -- same kernel with lilo loads fine (this was earlier in the 11.x series, don't know about now, dropped grub and haven't looked back!). Also -- a consequense of the above -- the LSM mount code is not in it's own RPM but is part of the boot-disk package making it impossible to easily upgrade. As a result, I lost the ability to do snapshots in 11.2 after some kernel update about a year ago.... Required a knew lvm lib...but that was part of the boot rpm and well enmeshed!... (Maybe it will work now on 11.4, but am a bit wary of trying it, since once opened, there was no way to close a snapshot (it would just eventually overflow and become corrupt)... Or support for linking modules into the kernel, vs. dynamically loading them -- several RC scripts would fail trying to load a module that was already loaded... not bother to check /sys/modules....) There's been TONS of issues over the years with each new update making the boot process more difficult and making everything that follows more difficult. (Like not being able to update LSM, without updating my boot-ram disk which I didn't use...)...etc... And those are just examples off the top of my head from the past few years... Linda -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org