Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes: > 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, ... Great. That's just what I asked for. I don't want LILO to be an "Please hit RETURN below to choose another bootloader because you don't see LILO here" option :) Thanks. > > 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 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- Andres Roldan Fluidsignal Group <aroldan@fluidsignal.com> The Debian Project <aroldan@debian.org> GIGAX <aroldan@gigax.org> GPG Key-ID 0xB29396EB Home Page http://people.fluidsignal.com/~aroldan
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