Bug#502446: debian-installer: grub-installer is not updated for grub-pc introduction

2008-11-17 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:09:56AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:40:12PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 07:36:52PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: I wonder why we offer to install grub-pc to non-MBR locations in lenny. For me, disabling that is an

Bug#502446: debian-installer: grub-installer is not updated for grub-pc introduction

2008-11-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:26:43PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: Hi, Otavio asked me to comment on this. Notice that I maintain grub/grub2, not grub-installer. In fact, my recommendations as grub maintainer are often dismissed here, so take this with a grain of salt. Thanks. On

Bug#502446: debian-installer: grub-installer is not updated for grub-pc introduction

2008-11-16 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 07:36:52PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: I wonder why we offer to install grub-pc to non-MBR locations in lenny. For me, disabling that is an option. But fixing it is even nicer. Erm, we shouldn't be doing this. When installing in a partition head, you can't really check

Bug#502446: debian-installer: grub-installer is not updated for grub-pc introduction

2008-11-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Thanks for interesting comment. On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:40:12PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 07:36:52PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: I wonder why we offer to install grub-pc to non-MBR locations in lenny. For me, disabling that is an option. But fixing it is

Bug#502446: debian-installer: grub-installer is not updated for grub-pc introduction

2008-11-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 16 November 2008, Osamu Aoki wrote: I thought so too and tried it. But as I tried update-grub command in chroot at /target while having os-prober installed in chroot from installer, it did not find other partitions. /chroot/dev directory did not have /chroot/dev/sda etc. /dev/sda

Bug#502446: debian-installer: grub-installer is not updated for grub-pc introduction

2008-11-15 Thread Robert Millan
Hi, Otavio asked me to comment on this. Notice that I maintain grub/grub2, not grub-installer. In fact, my recommendations as grub maintainer are often dismissed here, so take this with a grain of salt. On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:41:22PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: But if you do, you must take

Bug#502446: debian-installer: grub-installer is not updated for grub-pc introduction

2008-10-31 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, As I looked more in detail, debian-installer works fine (does not over write unrelated data) and usable if MBR is used as BIOS emultion mode boot loader. (I.e., installed to /dev/sda (hd0) So problem is when installing to /dev/sda3 or in other word to (hd0,3). Since this causes data loss,

Bug#502446: debian-installer: grub-installer is not updated for grub-pc introduction

2008-10-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I guess it is now reassigned grub-installer. Not just my emperical experience, here is rational for this bug report. http://grub.enbug.org/grub.cfg --- NOTE: you can use the update-grub utility to generate a grub.cfg file for you GRUB 2 uses new bashish scripting language that is used to

Bug#502446: debian-installer: grub-installer is not updated for grub-pc introduction

2008-10-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
Package: debian-installer Version: rc2 Severity: important rc2 comes with grub-pc in its initramfs /pool directory. So d-i team decided to offer not only grub (grub legacy) but also grub-pc (grub 2). Good for you. grub-installer_1.32_i386.udeb grub-pc_1.96+20080512-1_i386.deb