On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 08:01:31AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > On May 25 2005, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote: > > quik doesn't know about ext3 journaling. So better use a normal ext2 > > partition for /boot or be very sure that the /boot partition is unmounted > > properly before rebooting. > > Yes, that was the point of my message. OTOH, the sarge d-i says that quik > won't work with a /boot partition separated from a root partition. > This is mainly because the quik.conf resides in /etc. (at least that's why I think the d-i manual says this). It would probably make sense to move quik.conf to /boot. You could make /boot/etc/quik.conf and symlink /etc/quik.conf to it. quik itself either uses the partition explicitly specified in quik.conf by the partition= statement or the first bootable partition on the device it was started from. You can put /boot on a separate partition. You can even put it on a different device if you specify the device path in quik.conf. > This is, anyway, a major annoyance regarding the way quik works. > > It would be so nice if it were possible to have a unified bootloader for > both oldworld and newworld machines that understood symlinks (the config > file for quik mentions that it doesn't know how to follow symlinks). That's not right either. I just tried on my ans using quik 2.1-6 and symlink worked just fine. You do have to stay within the same partition though. (quik doesn't know about your mount points and only knows ext2 at the moment). Cheers, Peter (p2).
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