Hi today i had a typical installation problem that should be maintained better since its a stopper for unexperienced users:
dualboot with suse 10.2 and WinXP .. there was a Windows-Reinstall ( of course) that broke the boot-loader .. -> so i booted installation-DVD to recover it ok have to choose "New Installation" .. why this .. i dont want to .. ok anyway .. hidden therein is the recovery-function ( should be a mainmenu-item instead) i only want to recover the bootloader .. but suse wants the check all available filesystems .. which used to be clean anyway .. so checking them took useless ages going through further useless checkings .. like "fstab-entries seems to be incorrect" , where the are NOT (ignoring wont get by this popup) .. the recovery of the bootloader failed .. leaving a unexperienced user with a non-working system ( win32 only :-( ) after rebooting into rescue-system, mounting the root-partition .. setting grub-config-file , root and run the setup within grub .. this issue was solved .. but it sucks , since unexperienced users cannot do this on their own a friend i tried to switch to linux said .. this is definitly a showstopper for him , because windows-reinstalls are monthly/quaterly tasks , and without support from me he couldnt finish this .. so "Linux sucks" just because lacking a simple clean and working boot-loader-recovery .. (thats not my opinion :-)) please , its very important to bring this to a working release , or else SuSE will miss a lot new Users also i think that a "recovery system" should be more like a minimal live-cd with a good task-related-gui .. but just a basic shell with important features missing best regards -c- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
