Bug#75106: installing LILO on boot partition

[Matt Kraai <kraai@debian.org>]

Nate Duehr said:
> It should give the user a choice with a recommendation towards the boot
> partition for newbies.  (I use a commercial bootloader on a number of my
> machines and never put LILO in the MBR.)

It does give the user a choice, between the MBR of the first drive
on the boot partition bus (e.g., hda or sda) and the boot
partition (e.g., hda1 in my case).  The description, however, is
inaccurate, in that it refers to the "root partition's boot
sector" instead of the "boot partition's boot sector".

The recommendation given is to install LILO into the MBR, which
makes sense for new users.

If the user chooses not to install LILO on the MBR, it then asks
if they would like to install a loader in the MBR.  This is by no
means required, however.

So I think the description should be fixed and this bug marked as
fixed (and closed on the next upload).

Matt