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Bug#283972: marked as done (update information about i386 bootloader configuration)

Your message dated Mon, 04 May 2015 01:27:35 +0100
with message-id <1430699255.4113.124.camel@decadent.org.uk>
and subject line Re: update information about i386 bootloader configuration
has caused the Debian Bug report #283972,
regarding update information about i386 bootloader configuration
to be marked as done.

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Package: debian-installer-manual
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

I would propose to move the reference to section 8.3 from lilo-installer
to os-prober, because this seems more appropriate. You might consider
ignoring the other more cosmetic parts of the patch, although I think we
really should stop talking about Windows 9x as probably most of the people
reading this will have 2000 or XP installed by now.

Index: en/using-d-i/modules/os-prober.xml
===================================================================
--- en/using-d-i/modules/os-prober.xml	(revision 24138)
+++ en/using-d-i/modules/os-prober.xml	(working copy)
@@ -34,4 +34,15 @@
 
 </para></note>
 
+<para arch="i386">
+
+If you can no longer boot into Windows (or DOS) after this step,
+you'll need to use a Windows (MS-DOS) boot disk and use the
+<userinput>fdisk /mbr</userinput> command to reinstall the MS-DOS
+master boot record &mdash;; however, this means that you'll need to use
+some other way to get back into Debian! For more information on this
+please read <xref linkend="reactivating-win"/>.
+
+</para>
+
    </sect3>
Index: en/using-d-i/modules/i386/lilo-installer.xml
===================================================================
--- en/using-d-i/modules/i386/lilo-installer.xml	(revision 24138)
+++ en/using-d-i/modules/i386/lilo-installer.xml	(working copy)
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@
 Currently the LILO installation will only create menu entries for other
 operating systems if these can be <firstterm>chainloaded</firstterm>.
 This means you may have to manually add a menu entry for operating
-systems like GNU/Linux and GNU/Hurd after the installation.
+systems like GNU/Linux (beside the one you just installed of course)
+and GNU/Hurd after the installation.
 
 </para></note>
 <para>
@@ -59,8 +60,8 @@
 
 </para><para>
 
-If you can no longer boot into Windows 9x (or DOS) after this step,
-you'll need to use a Windows 9x (MS-DOS) boot disk and use the
+If you can no longer boot into Windows (or DOS) after this step,
+you'll need to use a Windows (MS-DOS) boot disk and use the
 <userinput>fdisk /mbr</userinput> command to reinstall the MS-DOS
 master boot record &mdash; however, this means that you'll need to use
 some other way to get back into Debian! For more information on this

This change of course will require a rewrite of the linked reactivating-win
document which is overdue anyway. I'm on it and will add it to this bug report
once I'm finished.

Gruesse,
	Frank Lichtenheld

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-k7-smp
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8

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The proposed text is present in the Debian 8 installation manual.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
If you seem to know what you are doing, you'll be given more to do.

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