On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 16:32:47 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > I wonder if we could somehow integrate selection of what drive/partition > to install a boot sector on into partman. Partman currently can be used > to mark a partition as bootable or not. Maybe this is a good indicaton > of whether a boot loader should be on it. So when a drive is marked > bootable, what if a menu popped up asking if a boot loader should be > installed. It could let it be installed in the MBR of the drive the > partition is in, or to the partition, or not at all. Well, it's ok to integrate the boot loader configuration into partman or whatever partitioner. However I think it's not a good idea to associate it with the "bootable" partition. Speaking for myself, I still use the OS/2 boot manager in first place. This means the BM partition is marked as bootable and I want LILO or GRUB in the boot sector of my /boot partition... (I know this is not a common setup, but it should be possible - there are other boot manager's that may be used before the linux boot loaders.)
> Also add a check to partman so it makes sure exactly one partition is > marked bootable, That's a good point, ANY partitioner should do that. > Heck, I don't really know why partitooners want > us to mark drives as bootable at all.. Well, the BIOS needs to now from what partition (of the 4 possible primary ones) to load and execute the boot sector. Regards, Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
