Re: why does a minimal lenny install want to use LILO as the bootloader?
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> since i saved the output from "dpkg --get-selections" from the
> previous install before reformatting the hard drive, i understood
> that i could do a bare-bones install, then use "dpkg
> --set-selections" to reproduce the package selection and install.
>
> so, just for fun, i deselected every selection in the package
> groups list, and now i'm being asked about where i want to install
> LILO. why? if you choose to do a minimal install, is grub somehow
> considered too fancy or optional? that's just weird. would
> selecting one of those choices give me the grub option back again?
wait, i might have the answer, here:
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Debian/2008-08/msg02319.html
except that i *did* make a separate, primary partition for /boot --
/dev/hda1, right at the front of the hard drive. does it have to be
bootable? is that what i might have forgotten?
rday
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