* Frans Pop [2007-04-09 23:13:25 +0200]: > On Monday 09 April 2007 22:53, Sergio Gelato wrote: > > According to > > http://www.novell.com/documentation/zlm72/lm7admin/data/b3r865p.html > > some of the "boot to utility partition" functionality relies on special > > features of Dell's MBR; however, the partition can also be booted from > > GRUB just like any other DOS partition. > > Thanks! From that info it looks as if the partition can just be > chainloaded even if grub is installed in the MBR. It should be relatively > simple to add detection for this in os-prober. > > Could you test this if we implement it?
I can't make any promises. We don't buy Dell gear every day, and historically I've tended to install Debian using FAI rather than d-i. This was an exception since I haven't had time to update my FAI config for etch but the machine's NIC (Broadcom 5754) required a 2.6.17 or newer kernel. I may switch to d-i with preseeding at some point, but I don't know when. Of course one can make a partial test, running the prober by itself and printing out what would have been done, in which case yes, I do have a number of systems with 0xde partitions this could be tried on. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]