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Bug#276244: Grub fails on install of Debian Testing



reassign 276244 grub-installer
severity 276244 wishlist
merge 232330 276244
thanks

On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 11:32:45PM +0200, ketil vestby wrote:
> Expected behaviour:
> - A Grub - menu, with boot option
> 
> Observed behaviour:
> - BIOS screen with initial data, and below is the following message:
>  **********
>  * GRUB Loading stage1.5.
>  *
>  * GRUB loading, please wait...
>  * Error 18
>  **********
> 
> Suggested fix: Either replace GRUB with LiLO from the plain installer, 
> or fix the problem with GRUB and large harddisks.

This isn't going to happen.  To work around the problem, refuse to
install GRUB and the installer will let you use LILO instead.

Unfortunately, we don't know how to detect when this is necessary.

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Matt Kraai         kraai@ftbfs.org         http://ftbfs.org/kraai/

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