On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 08:16:39PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote:
Christian Perrier wrote:
Lower debconf priority and the boot loader installation entries will show up on main-menu.
Wouldn't you admit that this is _very_ hard to find?
Do you really think that choosing a bootloader should be a question posed to novice installers? The system should just pick one that works and install it.
But asking the same novice installer to chose between
/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
and
/dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/discfor installing the boot sector is?
Whether lilo should be "the one that works" is a different matter.
lilo is still the default boot loader (no idea whether this is supposed to change) but grub is definitely a possible choice.
I tried the sarge netinst CD of this morning: There was no choice whether I want to get Lilo or Grub. After installing the base packets it requested to write a boot sector using Lilo. I could not even cancel this operation. IMHO this should be changed.
This is when booting in expert mode (DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium)?
My point is that I could not skip writing a boot sector (without setting DEBCONF_PRIORITY, of course). Sorry, but I still don't think that this is OK. It should be possible to keep the Windows boot sector in place, for example.
I never liked M$ Windows overwriting the boot sector without confirmation, either.
BTW, would it be too late to list DEBCONF_PRIORITY in F7.txt?
Regards
Harri
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