We've fixed bug 266886 - a bug with raid setups and our developers and
QA team have tested heavily all situations they could think of.
I've just released a new repository with an updated perl-bootloader -
and a new kernel with some minor fixes to:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/aj/10.2-bootloader-test
We're going to release this the next days as official updates unless
somebody finds another serious problem.
Thanks for all your help with testing!
Andreas
P.S. Full quote as reminder ;-)
Andreas Jaeger
The last kernel update for openSUSE 10.2 showed a couple of bugs (see bugreport #252911) in the code that updates the bootloader configuration after a kernel update. We have tried to fix all of them and did internal testing - and fixed further bugs encountered during the internal testing. Now we're confident that we have fixed everything we tested ;-) - but would like to have the code tested in many more environments.
Therefore I've created a repository that contains a new perl-Bootloader package and a new kernel.
The new kernel contains as most interesting feature the re-enablement of CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS - and also a small number of bugfixes. For me it's most interesting to have the kernel so that you can test that the bootloader rewrite works ;-)
Please add the following URL as repository for testing:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/aj/10.2-bootloader-test
Please install *first* the perl-bootloader patch and then *afterwards* the kernel patch.
Scenarios to test: ------------------
* openSUSE 10.2 & 10.3 (Alpha) installed with - /boot primary partition - /boot logical partition - / primary partition - / logical partition - persistent device links (default) - LVM proposal - EVMS proposal - fakeraid
* Various architectures (i386, x86_64, ...)
* Various bootloaders (GRUB, LILO, ...)
* Update/install/remove kernels with rpm - Will new boot entries be created/removed? - Will new entries be inserted on top (e.g. in menu.lst)? - In case of default/smp/bigsmp kernels, will failsafe entries be created? - Is the label correct, thus "<Distribution> -- Kernel-<version-release>"?
* Handling of default entries - New kernels should only become default if the kernel referring to the former default entry has the same flavour (e.g. 'smp' or 'xen')
* System must be bootable ;)
Please report everything in bugzilla and mention that you used the 10.2-bootloader-test repository.
Thanks for your help, Andreas
Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126