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Re: woody vs. lilo problem?



* Bo Lorentsen <bl@netgroup.dk> [020717 23:55]:
> On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 02:04, N. LaBelle wrote:
> > I'm planning on deploying Woody when it is released, but i need to
> know if Woody will contain a version of lilo that will be compatible
> with hard drives larger than > 1024 cylinders without creating a special
> boot partition or using a boot floppy.  Furthermore, will Woody support
> GRUB out of the box?  Does the current netinst of woody have any lilo
> problems?
> Lilo supports lba32, but sometimes it still don't work. I have installed
> grub on my debian, without any problems. The only thing you need is the
> provide a /boot/grub/menu.lst file (se the doc).

Hi Bo and Natey,

'update-grub' will create a menu.lst file for you.  It's a nice little
script to use.  Then I do a 'grub-install /dev/hda' and I'm done.

I just did a fresh woody install and tried to remove Lilo.  There were
still some Kernel and other dependencies.  I filed a bug that was fixed
in the kernel-package so that new kernels SHOULD depend on lilo|grub but
I don't think that kernel-package is being used to create the kernel
images yet.  I haven't followed it closely.  If anyone knows the status
more accurately, please correct me.

-- 
-- Grant Bowman                                <grantbow@grantbow.com>


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