Or maybe I won't write that cooltip

openSUSE10.2 is out!

Unfortunately, it has a bug somewhere that prevents GRUB from successfully installing onto my system. This is new between RC1 and Final, since RC1 worked pretty well for me. There is an existing bug that comes close to this one, and suggests that perhaps the SATA nature of my boot device may be getting in the way. I know that the JMICRON thingies have been a problem in the past, but the boot drives are all attached to the chipset SATA headers, not the JMicron ones.

Even if openSUSE comes out with a patch, it won't help install much unless they remaster. Upgrading will require me to install 10.1 on, and then doing an 'update installation' from YAST over the Internet with a 10.2 repository. Which will take 12-18 hours right now with everyone and their mother slamming the repositories.

Grr.