[3226] in Release_7.7_team
Re: possible bug in ALS SMP 9.0.25 update script?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Apr 2 18:36:00 2002
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Stefan Stasik <stasik@mit.edu>
Cc: release-team@mit.edu, wccf-dist@bcs.MIT.EDU
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Date: 02 Apr 2002 18:35:54 -0500
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On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 18:32, Stefan Stasik wrote:
> Thanks for the follow-up on this bug. I assume it was fixed in the
> emergency 9.0.26 update that was released last night? Actually, the update
> last night didnt do a kernel update, so it wouldn't show up there.
No, sorry. Emergency patch releases usually change nothing except what
they have to, since they happen on very little notice and we don't want
to accidentally break one thing while fixing another.
> About switching to GRUB in 9.1, I glad to know you will switch. I am
> invested quite a bit in LILO at this point, with quite a few
> customizations we have done to some of our ALS systems with LILO to
> support things like dual-boot and the like. I would need to read up and experiment with
> GRUB to allow us to switch over to this new way of booting the ALS boxes.
After some thought, the current plan is to leave lilo alone on existing
machines, and install grub on new machines. It's too hard to
automatically convert from lilo to grub when there might be various lilo
customizations present.
If you do want to switch to grub after 9.1 comes out, though, you would
be encouraged to do so. Its architecture is much more robust, since the
update agent is no longer responsible for updating a config file and
replacing the boot blocks.
