reassing 276100 grub-installer retitle 276100 Should take boot sequence defined in BIOS into account tags 276100 d-i thanks
On Tuesday 12 October 2004 02:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > (1) any of the guided partition schemes using largest > block of free space wanted to create an active primary > partition for the root filesystem after the extended > partition. I'm guessing that the free space started _after_ the end of the extended partition. If the free space had been enclosed within the existing extended partition it should have created the new partitions as logical. > (2) first attempt: allowed d-i to install grub on mbr > of 'first drive' as it did properly detect the > existing windows install (1 of them, identified as > 2000/xp probably because of the xp bootloader). > however, it must have considered the ide drive as the > 'first drive' as that's where it put grub. > > second attempt: knowing the above, manually chose > /dev/sda to install grub to mbr of the sata drive. it > installed there as expected, however since d-i saw the > ide as the 'first drive' and sata as the second it > configured grub to boot to hd1,0 for windows and hd1,5 > for linux. > (3) which caused grub to not boot anything. had to > manually edit grub paramaters to read hd(0,5) to boot > linux. once to console, had to edit > /boot/grub/menu.lst to read hd(0,0) for windows and > hd(0,5) for linux entries. It looks like the boot sequence definition in your BIOS is different from the sequence in which the disks are detected by d-i. I'll reassign this report to grub-installer, but I'm not sure if we will be able to do autodetect this. Maybe we should just add a question which is the primairy boot device if different types of disk controller are detected. > (4) during base-config's tasksel, i chose only manual > package selection and got a slew of pre-selected > packages (over 80, totalling 150+mb installed). This is because these packages are priority 'standard', the definition of which is that they will be installed by default. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
