On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 10:43:00PM -0400, Walter Landry wrote: > Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote: > > Walter Landry wrote: > > > I am trying to use the beta 3 installer for sarge, and I've run into a > > > problem. I want all of my partitions, including the root partition, > > > to be XFS. If you do that, then you get a warning that Grub probably > > > can't handle that. Fine, I think. I'll just use Lilo. But no matter > > > what I do, the installer always wants to install grub, even in expert > > > mode. > > In expert mode, you move the cursor down to lilo and hit enter. In > > normal install mode, you go back when it asks about installing grub, and > > pick lilo instead. > In normal install mode, if I go back and install lilo, then when I try > to "Finish the installation and reboot", it wants to install Grub again. > The only way I can get past it is to "Continue without boot loader". When > I actually reboot I get > Grub Loading stage1.5 > Grub Loading: please wait > Error 17 > In expert mode, a similar thing happens. "Finish the installation and > reboot" insists on installing Grub. If I never select the Grub option > and just reboot the system after installing Lilo (without > "finishing"), then Lilo is not actually installed on the disk. > Basically, it really wants to install Grub. This sounds like a problem with lilo-installer not succeeding. I think I ran into the same bug (for the same reason -- XFS system), but unfortunately had no time to document the install attempt. If lilo-installer exits with non-zero status, the bootable-system (iirc) dependency will not be satisfied, and d-i will again try to configure the highest priority module that provides this functionality, namely, grub. I ended up creating my lilo.conf by hand to get past the blockage, since I was more concerned about getting the box installed at the time, but I'd certainly like to see this tracked down. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature