Package: lilo-installer Version: 1.16 I'm using the latest daily build of the AMD64 netinst CD. I have a single SATA drive, and I selected "use entire drive" in the partitioner and it created one large root partition and one swap partition. Then I changed the root partition to XFS. There was a warning about XFS + grub and the lilo installer ran instead of the grub one.
The LILO installer asks for the installation target and gives three choices: 1) /dev/hdc: Master Boot Record 2) /dev/sda1: new Debian partition 3) Other (advanced) /dev/hdc is my CDROM, /dev/sda is my SATA HD, so I chose option 2. It asks if I would like to make the partition active and warns that otherwise I won't be able to boot. I say yes and there's an error message: "An installation step failed. You can try to run the failing..." etc. In any case, the "Install the LILO boot loader on a hard disk" step fails. Ctrl-Alt-F4, tells me: grub-installer: /boot on xfs, unsafe to install grub grub-installer: /boot on xfs, unsafe to install grub main-menu: INFO: Menu item 'lilo-installer' selected main-menu: I: setting partition to active main-menu: /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun1/disc: No medium found main-menu: main-menu: sfdisk: main-menu: cannot open /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun1/disc read-write main-menu: WARNING **: Configuring 'lilo-installer' failed with error code 1 main-menu: WARNING **: Menu item 'lilo-installer' failed. I went back to the main menu, enabled the web server that shows the logs, noticed that the partman log says that my HD is /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/disc, so I went back to the LILO menu and tried that in the Other option, but the result was the same: Jul 29 18:06:59 grub-installer: /boot on xfs, unsafe to install grub Jul 29 18:07:00 grub-installer: /boot on xfs, unsafe to install grub Jul 29 18:07:07 main-menu[2214]: INFO: Menu item 'lilo-installer' selected Jul 29 18:07:16 main-menu[2214]: (process:1635): I: Setting partition /dev/sda1 to active... Jul 29 18:07:16 main-menu[2214]: (process:1635): /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun1/disc: No medium found Jul 29 18:07:16 main-menu[2214]: (process:1635): Jul 29 18:07:16 main-menu[2214]: (process:1635): sfdisk: Jul 29 18:07:16 main-menu[2214]: (process:1635): cannot open /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun1/disc read-write Jul 29 18:07:16 main-menu[2214]: WARNING **: Configuring 'lilo-installer' failed with error code 1 Jul 29 18:07:16 main-menu[2214]: WARNING **: Menu item 'lilo-installer' failed. Jul 29 18:07:17 grub-installer: /boot on xfs, unsafe to install grub Jul 29 18:07:17 grub-installer: /boot on xfs, unsafe to install grub Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
