On 1 Jun 2006 at 16:34, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > Hi, > Lenz Grimmer wrote: > > I noticed that Fedora seems to have switched to using Logical Volumes > > for installing on the hard disk since FC4. I personally am using LVM > > myself for a very long time and must say I am very fond of it. It > > provides much more flexibility than using plain partitions, especially > > when it comes to resizing or moving file systems or taking backups. > > > > I'd like to propose that SUSE Linux considers switching to this scheme > > for new installations by default, too - I now filed this as an > > enhancement request in Bugzilla: > > > > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=180762 > > > > What do others think about that? > > Only if you combine it with mount-by-{label,uuid}. That would certainly > help people who are stuck after rearranging their hard disks. > > While we are on the topic of booting: How about an additional initrd > which has all storage drivers included, not only the ones you are using > on your system? Currently there is no way to boot an installation > after changing the harddisk controller (except recovery from CD which > is unknown to most). So if the system can't find its root file system, > it can emit a message "please reboot and select 'boot recovery mode'". > The "boot recovery" initrd would have the same contents as the normal > initrd, but with all storage drivers and added auto-probing.
I'd suggest a (working) yast repair module for that situation instead. (To be booted from different media, of course) Ulrich --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
