[opensuse] Bugs: in SuSE11 - Grub boot & fsck.xfs 'enhancement'[sic]
- From: Linda Walsh <suse@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 09:54:45 -0700
Rajko M. wrote:
I don't see problem.----
The /boot/grub/menu.lst has /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_<...1> and /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_<...2> entries.
If that syntax is supported, I'd have never brought this issue up.
But that wasn't the syntax that the SuSE installer placed in my boot file.
It clearly put in /dev/sda. I know I didn't manually create a custom grub
file to boot from when I installed the system. I barely know how to do
that with lilo! :-) Not to mention the overblown, pompously named
"GRand" Unified Boot" loader.
A grub -- bringing the image of an ugly
gross thing thing (sample of especially ugly one:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Witchetty_grub.jpg)
that roots around in the dirt eating eating the roots of of my plants causing
them to wilt while the grub grows into a nasty *bug* (a beetle or scarab,
to be more precise), while my software, it's roots eaten tries to boot
into some wilted expression of a running OS if it boots at all -- WHAT
a horrid, perverted name for a boot loader considering it eats at the roots
of what is trying to spring from the soil.
*Cough*,
but I digress....if that syntax is supported by "Grub" (involuntary yuck),
why isn't SuSE using it?
If it isn't, isn't that a fundamental bug or flaw in how SuSE is setting
up the boot-params in grub? It seems if SuSE is converting to 'permanent' device
names, it's majorly missing out on the most basic steps of ensuring that the machine
boots properly.
As for the "numbers" at the end of /etc/fstab being a directive for
'fsck's order to check disks in -- "technically", my bad for not indulging in
'SuSE's rigid bootup procedures regarding XFS.
XFS doesn't have an 'fsck' command. It was originally a 'no-op'
and apparently was "enhanced" (bug added), to check for device existence and
return failure on device non existence. If the device isn't there, there is not
file system to check, so there can be no BAD file system. Duh!
Bug # two.
Took me a while to get into a mental state of being able to
properly figure out why these issues where bugs.
The fact that all the "helpers" take all these "problems" for granted is
only a symptom/feature and proof of linux's (SuSE's) continued unfriendliness --
and even migration toward increased 'non-fault-tolerance' (vs. a fault-tolerant
system that tries to do the right thing (or at least something "productive" rather
than just throwing out a syntax or fatal error and dying).
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