642401 – lilo is missing chain.b

Bug 642401 - lilo is missing chain.b

Summary: lilo is missing chain.b

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	openSUSE 11.4
Classification:	openSUSE
Component:	Bootloader (show other bugs)
Version:	Milestone 5 of 6
Hardware:	All openSUSE 11.3

Priority:	P5 - None Severity: Normal with 5 votes (vote)
Target Milestone:	Milestone 6 of 6
Assignee:	Stefan Fent
QA Contact:	Jiri Srain

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Reported:	2010-09-28 20:18 UTC by Elmar Stellnberger
Modified:	2013-12-06 12:30 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Elmar Stellnberger 2010-09-28 20:18:59 UTC

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Chain.b is not integrated into the lilo package (as it is for RedHat). However without chain.b lilo is of little use. Lilo is mainly used to boot foreign OSes like Windows or FreeBSD while booting Linux is more comfortable with Grub because Grub allows you to change the kernel parameters.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 2 Stefan Fent 2010-09-30 09:31:44 UTC

Well, what is the advantage of lilo in chainloading, compared to GruB?

Comment 3 Elmar Stellnberger 2010-10-01 07:37:55 UTC

Lilo is the ideal boot loader for chainloading.
It is slim, fast and easy to configure.
If I have some other OSes like Windows or FreeBSD I always use lilo (with chainloading facility of course).
  The only thing that in my mind stands for Grub is that you can edit the kernel command line which however only applies to booting Linux (no chainloading). For this purpose I usually install lilo into the MBR and grub into the Linux partition.

Comment 4 Elmar Stellnberger 2010-12-14 17:51:00 UTC

No sense - to my mind - in supporting lilo without supporting chain.b. I can not even handle over control from lilo to grub that way.

Comment 5 Elmar Stellnberger 2011-01-29 17:12:30 UTC

confirmed for openSUSE 11.4

Comment 6 Stefan Fent 2013-12-06 12:30:49 UTC

Thanks for fixing this.