On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 15:46 -0400, Richard Creighton wrote: > d_garbage wrote: > > Hello list, > > The 'repair' feature has helped me before and it would be good to have > > it at hand, for when I (inevitably) bork my shiny new 10.3 install. > > The original 'repair installation' option on the DVD was broken. Now > > the yast module has been fixed, can you tell me how to get/make a > > bootable 'repair installation' rescue disk to replace it? > > Thanks, > > David > I'm going to caution *extreme* caution with the repair function, either > on the boot (if you can make it run) or in Yast. It is very broken and > if you happen to be lucky enough to get some of the pieces to work for > you, more power to you, but I wouldn't trust my worst cold-war enemies > computers to the repair module just yet. Parts do work, some give the > illusion of working, any dealing with non-standard (read RAID or LVM or > mixed hardware IDE-SATA) are apt to be horrifically broken. To be > sure, I just documented (again) just the first 3 steps of the Yast2 > repair on my MD raid installation. Only the first step completed. It > detected all parttions correctly. From there on, if I had let it > 'repair' things, I would have had no system left. (Yes, I've filed bug > reports which are still open). For more conventional systems, you do > have a fighting chance at success, but I think I would rather let a > Orangutans control the repair efforts than the repair program right > now. How this most important piece of programming was allowed to be > put on the GOLD MASTER and distributed around the world as an example of > SuSE's excellence, is beyond me. I love Linux and I support SuSE in > every way I know how, but it is very frustrating to see this kind of end > result. It isn't as if there weren't plenty of warnings during beta > testing about the IDE-SATA breaking things, including the repair > program, it is just that it wasn't taken seriously enough until after > RC1 was released and GM was being sent for pressing...then it was too > late. It just makes me ill to think that SuSE will be judged by > Windows potential converts and find their Windows installation > unbootable *and* an unbootable copy of SuSE with no way to fix it and > without the skills to know how to 'work around' the bugs that should > have *NEVER* been committed to vinyl. > > My suggestion is that if your system needs repairing, do it the old > fashioned way, use the utilities best suited for the job, such as fsck > and the various editors and partitioners (including the one in Yast). > Just don't use 'repair', just yet. > > Richard
Are ALL openSUSE discs broken with regards to Repair? CDs, DVD, boxed edition? If so, yikes. Would it cause any problems to use a 10.2 DVD repair disc for repair incase I need it? -- Kevin Dupuy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yo.media -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
