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On 12/5/07, Richard Creighton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I feel like taking my favorite deity's name in vain so he would smite me > off of the face of the earth because I couldn't be madder in hell than I > am now at openSuSE's updater program. > > I have a raid disk controller that is not directly supported by any > kernel issued by openSuSE. Worse, there are kernels that will not > compile the source of the controller card so when I get a kernel that > will both compile and is compatible with the Rocket Raid Corporation > rr174x controller that allows me to have a 2.5TB raid5 hardware array > PLUS any software (MD) array(s) I want to define with a total of 9 > drives on my system, I don't want things automatically screwed up by > anyone or anything. I recently compiled 2.6.22.13-0.3-bigsmp and the > driver for my controller assimilated itself nicely and I added the new > kernel and modules to the appropriate directories and to GRUB menu.lst > and rebooted and everything worked. As did the previous kernels (2 > deep) which gives one a warm fuzzy feeling considering that from 10.2 > through the 2nd released kernel of 10.3GM, I had to do without my > hardware controller and to get stuff off of those drives, I had to > physically reinstall a drive with 10.2 on it that allowed the controller > to work. > > Shortly after rebooting, the updater said it had a security patch on the > new .13 kernel and (I know, I should know better than to trust anything > by now), it was small, a patch and I said, go ahead, it isn't installing > a new kernel, just requires a reboot to load it into memory after the > update.....Yeah, right!....It not only ate my GRUB configuration files > and replaced them, it also destroyed (by erasure) all of the other linux > kernels in /boot, their syms AND all of the modules AND sources in /lib > for those versions!!!!! Dammitalltohellanyway!!!! > > It is about dammed time this automatic with no recourse destruction by > update of erstwhile functioning systems stops and the updater and Yast > updates give us the OPTION to KEEP copies of our current > configuration. Somewhere back around 7-9, this was the default, and > that was when drive space was expensive....now, there is no excuse to > not at least make it an option at a very minimum. Thankfully the > kernel did boot and was still functional with my controller or I would > have weeks of work ahead of me rather than hours or perhaps days > recompiling from source and reinstalling the backup sources and boot images. > > Get with it openSuSE!!!! If my name was Bill Gates, I'd be spending a > few million, maybe billion, on lawyers about now regardless of whether > or not 'free software' is exempt from destroying peoples work or not. > I am that mad that if I were indeed him, I'd go from richest man in the > world to poorest, paying lawyers to induce management at openSuSE once > and for all to opt for what is right rather than what is expedient. > > Richard > (a very pissed off dude right now) > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
