On Sun, 13 Sep 2009, Andrew Reid wrote: > 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.
ok, so let's move beyond anecdotes and get into conjecture -- does anyone know the debian installer well enough to know *what* circumstances will cause said installer to refuse to offer grub as a bootloader, and only present lilo? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ======================================================================== -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org