Re: is lilo ever installed by default anymore?
posion bit poison...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org wrote: So, I would say that LILO is no longer the default installer for some installations of lenny. Do you mean Squeeze? Yes, 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. Probably needs to be checked..:) I don't know If this may help, but I can say that the thinkpad where I tested squeeze, all the disk is a single partition defined as LVM volume group, and my logical volume /boot is into. D-I choosed grub2 (and worked). Time ago, when you choosed /boot into LVM, lilo was choosed by d-i I think. This pretty much nails it. Thanks for the info! -- 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/87aanaf9y3@tac.ki.iif.hu
Re: is lilo ever installed by default anymore?
So, I would say that LILO is no longer the default installer for some installations of lenny. Do you mean Squeeze? Yes, 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. Probably needs to be checked..:) -- 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/4c9860f6.7060...@debian.org
Re: is lilo ever installed by default anymore?
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
Re: is lilo ever installed by default anymore?
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org wrote: So, I would say that LILO is no longer the default installer for some installations of lenny. Do you mean Squeeze? Yes, 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. Probably needs to be checked..:) Hi, I don't know If this may help, but I can say that the thinkpad where I tested squeeze, all the disk is a single partition defined as LVM volume group, and my logical volume /boot is into. D-I choosed grub2 (and worked). Time ago, when you choosed /boot into LVM, lilo was choosed by d-i I think. And If I don't remember bad, lilo was auto choosed in eFi hardware (intel iMac), but I can't say if squeeze does the same, because I need to track stable on my imac. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-doc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c9860f6.7060...@debian.org -- 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/aanlktik79ct6svd7mkwz+tbkpr-a1ri2ariprhtvg...@mail.gmail.com
Re: is lilo ever installed by default anymore?
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:24:29AM +0200, posion bit wrote: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org wrote: So, I would say that LILO is no longer the default installer for some installations of lenny. Do you mean Squeeze? Yes, 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. Probably needs to be checked..:) Hi, I don't know If this may help, but I can say that the thinkpad where I tested squeeze, all the disk is a single partition defined as LVM volume group, and my logical volume /boot is into. D-I choosed grub2 (and worked). Time ago, when you choosed /boot into LVM, lilo was choosed by d-i I think. And If I don't remember bad, lilo was auto choosed in eFi hardware (intel iMac), but I can't say if squeeze does the same, because I need to track stable on my imac. I have MacBook here :-) FYI: * Even for lenny d-i as I checked just before release Normal MBR system (amd64/i386): grub (GRUB 1) MacBook EFI system (amd64/i386): grub-pc (GRUB 2) * squeeze d-i Both are grub-pc (GRUB 2). Early lenny testing d-i chose grub (GRUB 1) and I had to chose manually lilo to get it installed and going. Osamu -- 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/20100921134136.gc3...@debian.org
is lilo ever installed by default anymore?
Hi all, 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. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: is lilo ever installed by default anymore?
Quoting Steve Langasek (vor...@debian.org): Hi all, 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. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
