I'd like to chime in -- It's a real annoyance that the base disks don't set up lilo to let you boot into multiple operating systems. Couldn't it ask if you want to dual-boot with windows, or whatever, and generate an appropriate lilo.conf file?
This is an area where RedHat has a significant lead over us. One of the guys I work with is a huge RedHat fan because he can just pop a RH CD into the drive, windows will autorun it, and RedHat install starts. It sets up almost everything for the user. I know we support far more configurations, etc. etc. etc., but for the average Joe New-User this is a large hurdle. -Brent -----Original Message----- From: Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Duncan Thomson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; debian-devel@lists.debian.org <debian-devel@lists.debian.org> Date: Friday, October 16, 1998 10:31 AM Subject: Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks >Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 09:18:23AM +0000, Duncan Thomson wrote: >> > i've seen postings about this before, but as yet no solution (either as >> > a message or in the boot disks). >> > >> > when debian is made bootable from the hard disk on certain systems, the >> > prompt 1FA: comes up, but the system will not boot off partition 1. >> > the disk controller is AHA-2940. any solutions to this problem? >> >> Where does it stops? Does it shows the typical "LI" message? > >Enrique, the problem is that our special "mbr" tool *REQUIRES* that >one of the partitions on your drive be marked "Bootable" under cfdisk >or fdisk. > >However, the current boot-floppies do not require this; in fact, they >don't even check if any partitions are marked Bootable or not. > >I suggest you add a test (I'm not sure how you would do it) to see if >the partition LILO is to go on is marked bootable by cfdisk before you >let the user leave the partitioning step. > >Ben > >-- >Brought to you by the letters Y and P and the number 1. >"Nerd. Loser. Jerk. Moron. Worm. Scum. Idiot. Fool." -- Pkunk, SCII >Debian GNU/Linux -- where do you want to go tomorrow? http://www.debian.org/ >I'm on FurryMUCK as Che, and EFNet and YiffNet IRC as Che_Fox. > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
