Re: Re: x86_64 Tao: yum fall back on i386 RPMs?

Dag Wieers <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Pasi Pirhonen wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 03:09:50PM -0500, Ed L Cashin wrote:
>
> > The 32-bit lilo from the i386 Tao seems to work fine.  Maybe it should
> > be included.
>
> No. I don't see single reason to include lilo (or even use it).
> 
> Ok. I can think of single reason for usage, but that is VMware
> ESX-server (and that does come with lilo and is ia32).

Well, the only reason to use lilo instead of grub is that lilo allows to 
define different fallback kernels in case you get a kernel panic. You can 
do this by adding 'fallback=<label>' to each section.

We have had problems with some Enterprise kernels, and the fallback saved 
us several times a 400km trip (or at least an amount of money to get 
someone to look at our system and choose another kernel).

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