Bug#251944: marked as done (Lilo+XFS do not work if installing on the partition.)
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From: Margarita Manterola <marga@marga.com.ar>
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Subject: Lilo+XFS do not work if installing on the partition.
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Hi!
I was with Noodles, testing the netboot installer on his laptop. We
wanted to try something fancy, so we installed in a certain partition he
had free, formatting it in XFS. The idea was not to touch the rest of
the installation that he had in his notebook.
So, we did format in xfs, thinking of booting with lilo instead of grub.
Now, I think I already said this, but since grub does not work with XFS
in /, it would be nice if the installer would NOT try to install grub in
/, and switch automatically to lilo. Or at least, switch automatically
to the main menu.
Anyway, that's not the bug. The bug is that when installed in the
partition (instead of the drive's MBR) lilo does not work with XFS
either, it fails because it would break the file system. Apparently,
XFS does not leave space for lilo to be installed at the beginning of
the partition.
Actually, it didn't even fail. It stalled, and we had to go to the
console, kill the present lilo, do it by hand, and that's how we saw the
error message.
So, uhm, I see no solution here except for not letting the user do this.
Or at least, failing instead of stalling, so that the user can go back
and decide what to do.
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Love,
Marga.
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Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:46:12 -0300
From: Margarita Manterola <marga@marga.com.ar>
To: 251944-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: LILO+XFS new behaviour
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I've just tried installing Debian with RC2 into an XFS partition.
It correctly chose to use LILO automatically instead of suggesting GRUB
first. And then when I chose to install it in the partition instead of the
mbr, it correctly warned me about the bad consequences it could have.
When I still chose to go on with this, it failed with a red screen and made
me go back until I chose to install LILO at the MBR.
I think this is as good as it gets, so I'm considering this bug solved, and
thus I'm closing it.
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Besos, ,''`.
Marga : :' :
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