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