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Bug#470027: installation report



reassign 470027 grub-installer
severity 470027 wishlist
retitle 470027 Please display a list of all bootable drives and partitions
thanks

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:52:40PM -0700, siggma wrote:
> >What you name "it assumes the FIRST physical disk" is in fact just a
> >list of visable physical disks with the cursor on the first disk
> >and waiting for a confirm.
> >  
> If I understand what you are saying. Yes, that would be a more useful 
> grub install option.
> A list of all bootable drives and partitions with type of partition.
> 
> Like this:
> 
> ========================================================
> 
> I found 2 physical drives: SATA0=sda, SATA1=sdb
> Your BIOS boot drive is SATA1:=sdb
> 
> Please choose a boot drive for grub install:
> 
> <drive sda> <ntfs, unknown>
> *<drive sdb> <linux, linux-swap>*
> 
> 
> <Back>            <Continue>
> ========================================================
> 
> Then:
> 
> ===========================================================
> 
> I found 2 physical drives: SATA0=sda, SATA1=sdb
> BIOS boot drive is SATA1:=sdb
> 
> You chose to install the Grub bootloader to drive SATA1=sdb
> With the following operating system options:
> 
> *Linux 2.6.22-3 amd-64 (sdb1)
> Vista/Longhorn             (sda1)
> Ubuntu 7.1 Gutsy         (sda3)
> 
> (*=Default boot drive)
> 
> <Back>               <Continue>*
> *==========================================================
> 
> >Please understand that an installed Debian system only needs one bootable
> >device and it up to the BIOS to decide which from which device should be
> >booted first. There is NO need to mix those two functions.
>   
> Have I clearly described what I think is a possible bug issue?

Yes.  I have reassigned your proposal to the right package as a
wishlist.

Cheers,
-- 
Jérémy Bobbio                        .''`. 
lunar@debian.org                    : :Ⓐ  :  # apt-get install anarchism
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