Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Hi!
I was with Noodles, testing the netboot installer on his laptop. We wanted to try something fancy, so we installed in a certain partition he had free, formatting it in XFS. The idea was not to touch the rest of the installation that he had in his notebook. So, we did format in xfs, thinking of booting with lilo instead of grub. Now, I think I already said this, but since grub does not work with XFS in /, it would be nice if the installer would NOT try to install grub in /, and switch automatically to lilo. Or at least, switch automatically to the main menu. Anyway, that's not the bug. The bug is that when installed in the partition (instead of the drive's MBR) lilo does not work with XFS either, it fails because it would break the file system. Apparently, XFS does not leave space for lilo to be installed at the beginning of the partition. Actually, it didn't even fail. It stalled, and we had to go to the console, kill the present lilo, do it by hand, and that's how we saw the error message. So, uhm, I see no solution here except for not letting the user do this. Or at least, failing instead of stalling, so that the user can go back and decide what to do. -- Love, Marga. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
