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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 16:45:57
Message-ID: h18i85$ai9$3 () saturn ! local ! net
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Joachim Schrod wrote:

> Per Jessen wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> I don't think that's a YaST issue. (I don't use YaST for software
> installation or updates.) That's a matter of post-installation
> actions, probably some SuSEconfig script got bit-rot that did the
> lilo.conf editing once upon a time and now was not updated any more.

Sorry, that _is_ what I meant to say - regardless, either way it's about
openSUSEs support for lilo, not lilo itself.

/Per

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Per Jessen, Zürich (20.8 °C)

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