Gentle reader,
I've installed openSUSE factory on three different platforms:
1. a three-disk Asrock based workstation, update from 10.2 beta,
intallation on an exclusive disk, boot image selection by BIOS - worked
like a charm. I could select LILO and everything is fine ;-)))
2. a ECS 320 (Yakumo Green 320) notebook, update from 10.0, worked
flawlessly except the boot loader (GRUB doesn't work(tm)). After
manually switching to LILO by the system repair function, choosing
automatically conversion of existing configuration, it worked. Except
that in the automatically generated lilo.conf the image tags were
missing, they had to be inserted manually.
The hidden splash screen, meant as easter egg, (running penguins)
appears sometimes and will lock the boot process (no running penguins,
nothing to be selected, CTRL-ALT-DEL doesn't work).
3. a three disk Asustec based Server with soft raid 1, update from 10.1,
was really time consuming. The automatic upgrade preserved the LILO boot
loader (this is really good, thanks to GRUB doesn't work (tm), but it
made an additional md device out of the partitions dedicated for /boot ,
beeing unable to mount them under /boot and mangling their content. The
layout is
/dev/hdb1 - /dev/hdc1 - DOS
/dev/hdb2 - /dev/hdc2 - /boot, ext2
/dev/hdb3 - /dev/hdc3 - extended
/dev/hdb5 - /dev/hdc5 - RAID 1, reiserfs
/dev/hdb6 - /dev/hdc6 - swap
By the way, where does /boot/message come from? It's not in the RPM data
base!
The hidden splash screen, meant as easter egg, (running penguins)
appears sometimes and will lock the boot process (no running penguins,
nothing to be selected, CTRL-ALT-DEL doesn't work).
Please, please, while performing an update, doen't make an automatic
conversion to GRUB with an existing (and reliably working!) LILO
configuration. This will inevitably break the system. Give the installer
the chance to select "automatic conversion of boot loader (at Your own
risk)" or "preserve old, existing, reliable, really working boot loader".
Yours sincerly
Christoph-Erdmann Pfeiler
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