Re: glitch during sarge install from CDROM
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 07:42:57PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> When installing sarge, I was asked whether I wanted to install grub
> as bootloader to my hard disk.
> I said NO (I prefer lilo).
> Then it asked me to explain just where I did want to install the boot loader.
> I left the space blank and went on.
> Of sourse it tried to install grup noplace, and failed with an error
> dialogue.
>
> Eventually this led me to the list of all phases if installation,
> where I was able to tell it to skip the grub phase and proceed
> directly to the LILO phase, which worked flawlessly.
>
> Don't you think that it should have given me the option to install
> LILO earlier in the series of questions, so it wouldn't have tried
> running grub with invalid parameters?
>
> As it is, I wouldn't have stuck it out if I hadn't already *known*
> it was possible to use LILO.
>
> -- hendrik
I filed a bug report on just this issue when the new installer was still
in testing. It was rejected. I've got to admit that there were so many
issues that really needed fixing and so many issues where the installer
team got it _right_, that this one is not so bad. But, since then I have
seen a number of threads on this list about problems with grub. I wonder
if, now that the new installer is a great success, this issue might not
be re-considered. There are a lot of people for whom lilo is old-and-
confortable, whereas grub is new-and-strange.
--
Paul E Condon
pecondon@mesanetworks.net
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