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Re: Default bootloader



Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz@soziologie.ch> writes:

> Am Mit, den 19.11.2003 schrieb Andrés Roldán um 14:43:
> > As the maintainer of LILO, I know that there is advantages on GRUB and advantages
> > on LILO. Some users will need LILO advantages, some will need GRUB advantages.
> > I'm not intending to make a flamewar of bootloaders. I just suggest not to have
> > a "default" bootloader but to let the user to choose what is the one she needs.
> You already have this choice. Simply run debian-installer at priority
> medium and you will see main-menu and you can choose grub or lilo. For

And a drek load of other useless stuff.

> the priority=high install we need a default, because we don't show the
> main-menu and this install is also intended for new users how don't know
> anything about boot loaders. Please don't add this choice to priority
> high installs, because this question is not appropriate for this
> priority.
> IMO we should make grub the default and add some logic (via
> isinstallable?) to grub-installer to detect all cases that grub can't
> handle and choose lilo then (and vice versa if this exists).
> 
> gaudenz

I'm thinking of adding a little Geenie (Paper clip?) that will combine
a few questions that will direct the rest of the installer. Currently
that would be the following:

Source medium for Components: [ ] cdrom  [ ] net  [ ] hd
Source medium for Base:       [ ] cdrom  [ ] net  [ ] hd
Network configuration:        [ ] none   [ ] dhcp [ ] static [ ] modem/dsl
Partitioning:                 [ ] manual [ ] automatic (dangerous, destructive)
Bootloader:                   [ ] grub, lilo, milo, aboot, silo, yaboot, amiboot, ataboor, miboot, ...

The order and availability of the options could change with the
detected hardware and depend on the medium, i.e. the base cd would use
cdrom, cdrom, none, manual, grub as defaults so the user has only to
press <continue>.

MfG
        Goswin



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