Christian PERRIER <bubu...@debian.org> writes: > Quoting Steve Langasek (vor...@debian.org): > >> I'm working on cleaning up the release notes for the squeeze release, and in >> the section on post-upgrade lilo handling, we have this note, which is >> carried over from lenny (where it referred to etch): >> >> If you are using lilo as your bootloader (it is the default bootloader for >> some installations of lenny) it is strongly recommended that you rerun lilo >> after the upgrade. >> >> Can anyone confirm that it's actually the case in lenny that lilo is used by >> default is some situations? I'm not sure where in d-i to look for this. > > > Looking around in D-I SVN, I see no code under "packages/" that says > "don't install grub-installer and use lilo-installer instead". > > So, only the packages' priorities and the Menu-Item number can give > precedence of one over the other.... > > Packages are "Priority: standard" and grub-installer has a lower menu > entry number. > > So, in short, I don't see any default install path where users would > end up with lilo-installer being executed in place of grub-installer. > > The only path seems to be an expert install and explicitly choosing to > install LILO instead of GRUB. > > So, I would say that LILO is no longer the default installer for some > installations of lenny.
Do you mean Squeeze? What if /boot is on LVM (can happen with manual partitioning)? Grub2 can (at least in principle) handle this, but I've never seen that in action. -- Cheers, Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87lj6v1rcs....@tac.ki.iif.hu