Package: grub-installer David Bruce <Bruce@lifelinkfound.org> wrote: > I just did a new installation with the sarge-i386-netinst.iso and was generally very impressed, particularly with the support for LVM and software RAID. My box used to have Windows 98 on hda and Debian on hdb, until hdb died an abrupt hardware death (but I had backups). Having read that the latest debian-installer supported RAID and LVM, I decided to venture into these realms and purchased two spiffy new 160GB IDE drives. I set up my new system as follows: > > hda: new 160BG drive: > hda1 128MB /boot > hda3 5GB vfat area for Windows backup > hda4 1GB swap > hda5 120GB area for RAID/LVM > rest of hda - empty > > hdb: original Windows98 hd, not modified > > hdc: new 160GB drive partitioned exactly like hda > > hdd:CDR/CDROM > > I made hda5 and hdc5 into a RAID-1 device, used this as a physical volume for a LVM volume group, and then doled out various logical volumes for the Debian install, which went without a hitch - very impressive! > > Now, the only negative/constructive feedback: the installer detected the Windows installation on hdb and created a corresponding entry in the grub menu.lst, but it didn't work, because it failed to take into account the inability of Windows to boot from anything other than the first disk. I fixed this by adding the following lines in the installer-generated Windows boot stanza: > > map (hd0) (hd1) > map (hd1) (hd0) > > and everything works perfectly. > > I think that the installer should automatically put in lines to do this remappiing whenever it finds a Windows installation on a disk other than hda (or hd0, in grub-speak). > > Anyway, great work! > David Bruce > > David S. Bruce, M.D., F.A.C.S. > LifeLink Transplant Institute > 409 Bayshore Boulevard > Tampa, FL 33606 > (813) 253-2640 > > > The information contained in this e-mail may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. LifeLink. -- see shy jo
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