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Martin Wuertele wrote: > * Frans Pop <elen...@planet.nl> [2009-04-07 02:54]: > >> Martin Wuertele wrote: >> > Actually lilo is installed by lenny d-i if you use root-sw-raid with >> > LVM, even if your /boot is an differen partition/sw-raid. Therefore >> > lilo should at least remain for sqeeze to ensure a proper upgrade >> > path. >> >> I'm afraid you're mistaken here. Lenny D-I should (and AFAIK does) >> default to grub for that setup. >> >> /boot on normal partition or RAID1 + / on whatever combination of >> RAID+LVM is supported fine by grub. Unless there is some other factor >> that you've not mentioned D-I does not fall back to lilo for that. > > I wonder what it could be. I don't user XFS just plain ext3 and had to > manually install grub for 2 recent setups. One is an IBM X3560 with > harware-raid, /boot on one partitione, rest for lvm, the other is an > X3220 with /boot on md0 and lvm on md1. For both D-I installed lilo. Next time you get in that situation, please add a 'set -x' in /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-installer.isinstallable and then run it from one of the debug shells. That should tell you why D-I skips grub and falls back to lilo. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
