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Subject:    Re: [opensuse] grub no longer being maintained? so Suse drops support for XFS boot?
From:       Per Jessen <per () opensuse ! org>
Date:       2009-06-17 19:46:17
Message-ID: h1bh69$leh$2 () saturn ! local ! net
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Carlos E. R. wrote:

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> On Wednesday, 2009-06-17 at 12:06 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
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>> Carlos E. R. wrote:
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>>> But lilo has some uses, it works on some instances where grub does
>>> not, and thus, I see it as an alternative for those cases where the
>>> primary booter (grub) does not work. It is sound engineering
>>> redundance to have two valid solutions.
>>
>> One example I can think of - I manage a number of remote servers
>> where I
>> have no console access.  A grub shell would be of no use here, and to
>> me(!) it's no big deal to boot the rescue system (via pxeboot) and
>> correct lilo.conf.
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> Doesn't grub manage the serial port? Tsk, tsk, too bad... :-P
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It doesn't matter - the only access I have is over IP.  But I'm sure
grub can boot with a serial console too. 


/Per

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Per Jessen, Zürich (20.9 °C)

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