Re: 2 minor comments about Debian 2.1 installation and about kernel packages
On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 05:01:18AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es> writes:
>
> > Yes, liloconfig step on dbootstrap is one of the "rough spots".
> > If someone has a little time to spare improving it, feel free to join us
> > in debian-boot and help us make it better.
>
> Should we work maybe on just using/adapting/extending the existing
> /usr/sbin/liloconfig script? If not, why not?
I'd say no:
- As of lilo 21-4 /usr/sbin/liloconfig basically does the same that
"liloconfig on dbootstrap":
1.- detect which partition is the root one and write a lilo.conf with a
single "Linux" entry using that partition for boot and root
2.- install mbr on the MBR of the same disk where the root partition is.
3.- activate the root partition
But:
- It doesn't detect "wierd cases" (IDE and SCSI on the same machine, root
on the second hard disk, ...).
- It doesn't use our "windowing libraries" (newt or Ben's graphics
library).
- It's not internationalized.
So, there's no point in working on that, as it does less than "liloconfig
on dbootstrap". IMO, it would be better to extract "liloconfig on
dbootstrap" to a stand-alone tool, that replaces /usr/sbin/liloconfig
> FYI, there are many lilo bugs in boot-floppies, search for lilo. This
> is a pretty good log of the missing functionality. It seems to me
> that /usr/sbin/liloconfig just needs to be hacked to ask for an
> optional 'append' string, and maybe adapted for our needs (i.e.,
> alternative mount point, i.e., /target, for installling lilo prior to
> booting into the new base system, and we're done.
Look again. Every lilo "bug" (most of them are wishlist items) in
boot-floppies is also in /usr/sbin/liloconfig, and there are a few ones
fixed on boot-floppies that are still present on /usr/sbin/liloconfig
--
Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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