On Sunday 13 September 2009 03:33:50 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > possibly related to an earlier post that discussed grub but, when > installing lenny, if i choose to create a separate, primary partition > for /boot (a long-time habit), if i select ext3 for that partition, i > am not offered the chance to use grub as a bootloader. > > as best i can tell, that /boot partition must be both:
I conjecture that you are doing Something Else wrong. I have many machines that have ext3 /boot partitions, including several that were set up initially as lenny machines. I also have this habit, and I generally intend to use ext2, but sometimes I forget to switch it from the installer's filesystem default, which is ext3. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org