Roland Egger wrote: > Package: installation-reports > Version: Debian 3.0r2 > Severity: important > > Processor: UltraSPARC-IIi 440 MHz > Root Device: IDE > > I have installed Debian Linux 3.0r2 on my ultra5 Installation reports are really intended to be used to report sarge installations. The installer used for Debian 3.0 is no longer being developed. > Afterwards I booted the Debian cd mounted my > linux partition and run silo -r /mnt -t to install silo on the linux > partition. Afterwards everything worked fine. > I can now boot silo or solaris from the OpenBoot and from silo I can > boot linux) > It would be great if the new debian has a possibility to let the > master boot blocks untouched. There should be one option e.g. > 4. save silo installation (Master Boot Sector will not be changed) > > Installing silo with the -t option seems to be a save method and does > not harm. It's really a nasty thing to remove silo (if something > goes wrong like in my example (perhaps too large disks) or you > want/have to remove linux/silo) and restore the old boot blocks. Since the new installer does not support running silo with -t either to not write to the MBR, I'll assign this report to the appropriate part of it. -- see shy jo
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