Re: upgrades must not change the installed init system [was: Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing]

[Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org>]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2014, Mathieu Parent wrote:

> 4) Upgrade to systemd silently without asking the user AND add a grub
> entry to use old init

These are the Linux bootloaders I came up within less than
five minutes of searching the ’net:

• Acronis OS Selector
• AiR-Boot
• AKernelLoader
• AMIBOOT
• APEX
• ARAnyM LILO
• ARCBOOT
• Barebox
• Boot Camp
• BootIt Next Generation
• BootKey
• BOOTSTRA.TTP
• BootX
• BURG
• CFE
• coreboot
• EFI
• ELILO
• Emile
• EXTLINUX
• FreeLoader 
• GRUB 1
• GRUB 2
• GRUB4DOS
• Gujin
• Gummiboot
• Kexecboot
• LILO
• LOADLIN.EXE
• MasterBooter
• PALO
• Penguin
• PMON
• PXELINUX
• Qi
• quik
• Redboot
• rEFInd
• rrload
• SILO
• Smart Boot Manager
• SYSLINUX
• TFTPLILO
• U-Boot
• XOSL
• Yaboot
• YAMON

I’ve heard of barely half of them, and have had personal
experience with half of that, but that still makes for a
dozen booloaders I know of.

Many of these require the user to copy out the kernel and
initrd from the Linux-controlled space, for example into
NAND flash or a FAT partition or a HFS partition or the
host filesystem or whatever.

So: No. Not a solution.

https://julien.danjou.info/media/images/blog/2014/unacceptable.jpg

bye,
//mirabilos

PS: Thanks, Julien!
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