Re: [suse-sles-e] Upgrade to SLES9 SP4 results in non-bootable systems when using SATA

From: Robert Scheck (scheck_at_etes.de)
Date: Sat Dec 22 2007 - 00:42:36 CET


Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:42:36 +0100
From: Robert Scheck <scheck@etes.de>
Message-ID: <20071221234236.GA28188@intranet.hq.stgt.etes.de>
Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Upgrade to SLES9 SP4 results in non-bootable systems when using SATA

On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Rasmus Plewe wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 11:55:51AM -0800, Alexei_Roudnev wrote:
> > It is a bad thing, because it is VERY
> > EASY to maintain previous kernel in Linux(es).
>
> Unfortunately that is not so in every case.

Hum? Then you IMHO should fix something at your distribution - sorry. If
such a thing would happen on another Enterprise distribution (okay, they
never delivered a broken kernel yet as Novell did today), I easily can even
advise a non-technical customer to select the older Linux kernel from the
boot menu and wait for a working fix. Or did you ever tell a secretary via
phone how to change a grub entry on the boot prompt to even have a chance
that the system maybe boots again?

> If we wouldn't do proper testing we wouldn't have had all this mess,
> because we wouldn't have discovered the issue before the release. ;-)

If there would be IMNSHO really proper testing, I wouldn't have to replace
/dev/sda5 by /dev/hdc5 and /dev/sda6 by /dev/hdc6 this afternoon. And I bet
there's a day where I've to change this the other way round in order to get
the system booting again...

Merry christmas

Robert Scheck

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