Bug#338639: Debian INSTALL REPORT
On Monday 14 November 2005 16:29, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > First problem is that lilo won't install at all, anywhere,
Probably your partition layout has a minor problem which makes lilo in
non-interactive mode fail.
> > so I have to use grub which will only install in the mbr,
> > where I don't want it because it takes over and can only be
> > shifted with <fdisk /mbr> and/or the Linux equivalent. Also
> > I have to learn how to get vga=ext results and other
> > adjustments with no LILO to configure.
What's wrong with learning new things? Especially if they offer
improvements over the old...
> I believe in expert mode you can install grub or lilo other places.
> For a typical user the MBR is the right place, and grub is the right
> choice. For a typical user you have grub offering you Sarge (with your
> choice of kernel) or sarge and windows. Anyone with more OSs installed
> than that is not a typical user and should probably be using expert
> mode, or at least know how to setup the boot loader manually to do what
> they want.
You can install both grub and lilo on any partition you like in default
mode also. For grub, just answer no to the very first question it asks
("do you want to install on the MBR of the first disk"). It will then
allow you to enter a different partition in either grub format "(hd0,3)"
or clasic dev format "/dev/hda4".
Cheers,
FJP
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