Re: [Trisquel-users] issues with encrypted installation

[dguthrie]

Thanks for your reply. I am comfortable with partitioning and installing,  
what I am really trying to say is that the Trisquel net installer  
automatically treats itself as the drive /dev/sda, rather than the first  
disk, which is clearly an example of misbehaviour. If you have no other OS  
installed, there's no way of installing GRUB from the net installation CD as  
the shell is very limited, so LILO is the only option here. Similarly it is  
not clear how you would change what physical disk is /dev/sda from the shell,  
it seems it is a fatal flaw of the installer (not present in Debian's  
near-identical text installer) to treat itself as /dev/sda and make GRUB have  
problems. I have no idea who tested this, and it would be really useful if  
someone else could use the net installer and see if they have similar  
problems.