Bug#25842: boot-floppies: support for different root and boot

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE>]

Wading through some bugs...

You wrote:
] dinstall does not consider using different boot and root options for lilo.
] It should ask for boot option, suggesting the already bootable partition
] perhaps. (I have small boot partition on \hda and linux on \sda, as my bios
] can't boot from SCSI).

Liloconfig could be extended in many kinds.  Im my oppinion this should
be done so liloconfig is *very* flexible or liloconfig should only cover
the most used situations.

If your situation isn't covered, create a boot floppy, reboot, edit
/etc/lilo.conf, issue lilo, and be happy.  You may also use the rescue
floppy with "root=/dev/sda1" argument.

This might sound harsh, but if we are to support non-usual cases we should
cover all.  I often get into the same problem, but using the rescue disk
for booting with root= parameter is fine, so I don't have a reason to
complain.

I'd like to close this bug report... May I?

Regards,

	Joey

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