Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Followup-For: Bug #231380
-- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.4 Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA The following occurred with floppies, business-card iso and the netinstall iso. I am not familiar with the devfs names but a peek (Alt-F2 ; mount) suggested I could install lilo on a partition if I changed the default, .../disc, to .../part5, for example. Although I was prompted to make the partition active and accepted it, another peek (no lilo.conf) indicated that the lilo installation appeared to have failed. I then found myself at the menu with the grub install highlighted. Trying to re-select lilo install only returned me to the highlighted grub install. If I finished the install, of course the new installation would not boot as "other" in my main lilo.conf. There were no obvious messages indicating the failure. (A quick mount..., copy of a simple lilo.conf with initrd and a chroot /mnt lilo fixed that.) Grub installs OK on a partition if you give it the name of the partition it understands. More generally, the new installer seems to offer dire warnings but not much facility for arranging a dual boot machine. If the defaults are accepted the previously installed system (in my case Debian unstable) was not accessible after rebooting as the admonishments suggested. I pretended to be a novice and did not use the expert installation. I would have expected that a dual boot setup would be quite common and necessarily included for a novice intallation. Hope this helps. (it is my first effort at testing and reporting problems with report -- nice system) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
