Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks
I'd like to chime in --
It's a real annoyance that the base disks don't set up lilo to let you
boot into multiple operating systems. Couldn't it ask if you want to
dual-boot with windows, or whatever, and generate an appropriate lilo.conf
file?
This is an area where RedHat has a significant lead over us. One of the
guys I work with is a huge RedHat fan because he can just pop a RH CD
into the drive, windows will autorun it, and RedHat install starts. It sets
up
almost everything for the user.
I know we support far more configurations, etc. etc. etc., but for the
average
Joe New-User this is a large hurdle.
-Brent
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Gertzfield <ben@cse.ucsc.edu>
To: Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es>
Cc: Duncan Thomson <thom-ci0@wpmail.paisley.ac.uk>;
debian-devel@lists.debian.org <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
Date: Friday, October 16, 1998 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks
>Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es> writes:
>
>
>> On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 09:18:23AM +0000, Duncan Thomson wrote:
>> > i've seen postings about this before, but as yet no solution (either as
>> > a message or in the boot disks).
>> >
>> > when debian is made bootable from the hard disk on certain systems, the
>> > prompt 1FA: comes up, but the system will not boot off partition 1.
>> > the disk controller is AHA-2940. any solutions to this problem?
>>
>> Where does it stops? Does it shows the typical "LI" message?
>
>Enrique, the problem is that our special "mbr" tool *REQUIRES* that
>one of the partitions on your drive be marked "Bootable" under cfdisk
>or fdisk.
>
>However, the current boot-floppies do not require this; in fact, they
>don't even check if any partitions are marked Bootable or not.
>
>I suggest you add a test (I'm not sure how you would do it) to see if
>the partition LILO is to go on is marked bootable by cfdisk before you
>let the user leave the partitioning step.
>
>Ben
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