Bug#64823: marked as done (incorrect LILO automatic placement on i386)
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Subject: incorrect LILO automatic placement on i386
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Version: 2.2.13-2000-05-04
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Hello,
I have a disk ``factory clean'' with no MBR.
No primary partition on the disk, only logical. / = /dev/hda6
I plan to install LILO on the MBR. The install procedure will not let me
do that, It give me only the option to install LILO somewhere it can't be
reached.
==> System won't restart.
Here is what I did :
The disk is formatted like this :
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1027 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 1027 8249346 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 1 31 248944+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda6 32 298 2144646 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 299 541 1951866 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 542 784 1951866 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 785 1027 1951866 83 Linux
I choose "make linux directly bootable from hard disk"
Then a dialog box says my disk is factory clean.
Then a dialog box asks for an MBR. I answer no
then another dialog ask for where to put lilo. I answer on the MBR.
Then a dialog says to me I have to install on /dev/hda1, and it does install
on /dev/hda1. The message goes like this :
The boot partition is a logical partition. It can't boot from there, so you
must install the MBR in one of the following extended partitions. Please
select the partition to use.
/dev/hda1
This is very bad because :
1) I have no MBR
2) even if I had one, /dev/hda1 is not marked as bootable, and it is
not automagically marked as bootable. I could not make /dev/hda1
bootable because cfdisk did not show the extended partition.
The system did not reboot. that's why I though the severity should be
set to critical. I had an "insert system disk" message from the PC bios.
I manage to finish the installation like this : I reboot with the boot
floppies, typing "linux root=/dev/hda6" at the boot prompt. After system
installation complete, I edit lilo.conf to install LILO on the mbr :
boot=/dev/hda. I run lilo and everything goes well.
Christophe
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Subject: bugs closed in boot-floppies 2.2.18
From: Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>
Date: 21 Nov 2000 00:26:01 -0500
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The bug you filed against the boot-floppies package has been closed in
the most recent boot-floppies, 2.2.18, now in Potato (for i386
anyhow). The changelog for that version is included.
Please let us know if you still have the problem, even in the newest
version.
Thank you for helping Debian build a better installation systenm.
--
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
boot-floppies (2.2.18) stable; urgency=low
.
* build with Debian 2.2r1 plus updates (closes: Bug#77459)
* Adam Di Carlo:
- i386 and sparc use kernel 2.2.18pre21
(closes: Bug#77425)
- Makefiles: clean is a bit cleaner
- release.sh (i386): also put kernel configs in TOP/<flavor> (hey,
it's a small file); don't leave stranded release/kernel-config file,
put it in the bf-common tarball
- rootdisk.sh: add pcd0 device mknod (closes: Bug#74322), which
MAKEDEV doesn't know about; add gscd and cm206cd devices; remove
some hacks on device creation due to bugs fixed in MAKEDEV
- dbootstrap: quiet bootarg makes more things shut up; disable the
check for root filesystem being on extended partition while LILO is
going on the MBR, because LILO supports this now (closes: Bug#64823);
add new fullscreen_execlog utility function
- debian/control: add Build-Depends and Build-Depends-Indep
(closes: Bug#70387); remove required package from depends
- documentation: fix links to dselect-beginner (closes: Bug#72870);
add a section in the first chapter talking about where to get Debian
(closes: Bug#71532); other corrections (closes: Bug#70871); fix
linux history link (closes: Bug#76408); enable Polish and Russian
documentation now that newer debiandoc-sgml is in Potato; give
example TFTP file name on SPARC (closes: Bug#40775); mention
problems with booting from IPX (closes: Bug#49172); when reporting
bugs on i386, you must report the flavor
* Josip Rodin:
- documentation: update non-US package numbers
* Eric VanBuggenhaut: French updates
* Marcin Owsiany <porridge@pandora.info.bielsko.pl>:
- Polish updates
- documentation/doc-check script added to help translators stay
up-to-date
- LANGUAGE_CHOOSER integration (closes: Bug#31865) detailed
descriptions follow
.
NOTE: i18n integration is not quite complete, but it is very very
close; it has specifically been kept out of the mainline
version due to some bugs which are expected to be fixed shortly
.
- moved bf-utf from its module to utilities, modified relevant files
accordingly
- Makefile: added conditional build time depends on libpng2-dev
and libpopt-dev
- rootdisk.sh: uses LANGUAGE_CHOOSER for compact and idepci i386 flavors,
in which case it: uses more blocks, adds fb0 ptyp ptyq ptyr ptys
devices, includes a font for bterm, includes a wrapper 'udbootstrap'
and modifies inittab accordingly, includes libutf8_plug.so, bterm,
all messages files, lc-enabled dbootstrap
removed redundand '$' from awk invocations
- utilities/bogl/Makefile: added bterm's font reduction to build process
- utilitise/dbootstrap/Makefile: added rules necessary for creation of
'dbootstrap-lc' - a language-chooser enabled dbootstrap, added configure
runs to generation of libnewt and libslang
- utilities/dbootstrap/po/Makefile: build both normal and utf messages
files by default
- added removal of necessary files to clean rules
* Gleydson Mazioli da Silva: Portuguese updates
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