Bug#75106: installing LILO on boot partition

2001-04-12 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Matt Kraai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It does give the user a choice, between the MBR of the first drive > on the boot partition bus (e.g., hda or sda) and the boot > partition (e.g., hda1 in my case). The description, however, is > inaccurate, in that it refers to the "root partition's boot

Bug#75106: installing LILO on boot partition

2001-04-12 Thread Nate Duehr
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 07:25:51AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > Nate Duehr said: > > It should give the user a choice with a recommendation towards the boot > > partition for newbies. (I use a commercial bootloader on a number of my > > machines and never put LILO in the MBR.) > > It does give the

Bug#75106: installing LILO on boot partition

2001-04-12 Thread Matt Kraai
Nate Duehr said: > It should give the user a choice with a recommendation towards the boot > partition for newbies. (I use a commercial bootloader on a number of my > machines and never put LILO in the MBR.) It does give the user a choice, between the MBR of the first drive on the boot partition

Bug#75106: installing LILO on boot partition

2001-04-12 Thread Nate Duehr
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 08:42:35PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > Howdy, > > This bug laments that dbootstrap presents the boot partition, > rather than the root partition, as the location for installing > LILO if they are different. I tried this on my machine, and LILO > was able to boot from this

Bug#75106: installing LILO on boot partition

2001-04-11 Thread Matt Kraai
Howdy, This bug laments that dbootstrap presents the boot partition, rather than the root partition, as the location for installing LILO if they are different. I tried this on my machine, and LILO was able to boot from this setup just fine. So I think this bug report should be closed. That is