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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse]  Re: grub no longer being maintained? so Suse drops support for XFS boot?
From:       Per Jessen <per () opensuse ! org>
Date:       2009-06-16 8:20:05
Message-ID: h17kjl$6ba$2 () saturn ! local ! net
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Joachim Schrod wrote:

> Per Jessen wrote:
>> 
>> I'm old (fashioned), I've never let YaST do anything to my lilo.conf
>> except for the initial install.  I've also rarely had reason to
>> change anything in lilo.conf once I've put a server or a desktop PC
>> into production.
> 
> I have kernel rpms set to multiple installations, to be able to
> boot an old kernel again if any problem surfaces. This rescued my
> a** several times already. To support this, lilo.conf -- or
> grub/menu.lst, for that matter -- has an entry for generic "boot
> the current linux system", but also entries for each specific
> kernel that gets installed. And the latter entries must be updated
> for every kernel install. It's not a big issue, but for grub it is
> done automatically, and for lilo that's not the case.

But isn't that a problem because of lack of lilo support in YaST, not a
lilo problem as such? 


/Per

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Per Jessen, Zürich (17.2 °C)

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