Re: is lilo ever installed by default anymore?
posion bit <poisonbit@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> wrote:
>
>>>> So, I would say that LILO is no longer the default installer for some
>>>> installations of lenny.
>>>
>>> Do you mean Squeeze?
>>
>> Yes, Squeeze
>>
>>> What if /boot is on LVM (can happen with manual partitioning)? Grub2
>>> can (at least in principle) handle this, but I've never seen that in
>>> action.
>>
>> Probably needs to be checked..:)
>
> I don't know If this may help, but I can say that the thinkpad where I
> tested squeeze, all the disk is a single partition defined as LVM
> volume group, and my logical volume /boot is into. D-I choosed grub2
> (and worked).
>
> Time ago, when you choosed /boot into LVM, lilo was choosed by d-i I think.
This pretty much nails it. Thanks for the info!
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Feri.
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