Re: why can't i use grub with an ext3 /boot partition?

[Emanoil Kotsev <deloptes@yahoo.com>]

Andrew Reid wrote:

> On Sunday 13 September 2009 18:58:17 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>>   ok, so let's move beyond anecdotes and get into conjecture -- does
>> anyone know the debian installer well enough to know *what*
>> circumstances will cause said installer to refuse to offer grub as a
>> bootloader, and only present lilo?
> 
>   A potentially useful experiment is to try installing grub manually
> on the partition, and see if it works, or if it doesn't, what errors
> it reports.

I never could find out how you can install packages from the installer -
they are in some funny format. Could post the steps for the record (or may
be a link)

>   
>   The installer may be suppressing error reports.  I believe you can
> view the installation log during the install, from an alt console, but
> I'm not 100% sure it's possible, and I certainly don't remember how.
> 

Well, it's correct  ALT+F[234] could help, but I don't think in this
particular case, because it is just deciding to not offer grub.

I don't know, who is using installer CD/DVD?

regards