Frans Pop wrote: >(Please don't use too fancy indentation; makes it harder to reply) > >On Sunday 24 December 2006 20:23, Willem Weide wrote: > > >>Description: >>I use lilo on hde1 as the primary bootloader. From here I point to one >>of the four OS's listed above. >>Before RC1 I worked with beta 2 and 3 images on hdh1 and they worked >>very well. >>Selecting debian etch from the lilo menu, gives me a message "..GRUB.." >>at the top of the screen for less then a second. After that the system >>reboots directly. >> >> > >You seem to have an fairly uncommon setup. I assume you've set lilo to >chainload into hdh1 and have installed grub there. >You also seem to have done some things manually, which makes it difficult >to anticipate the setup. Your best chance is to try to identify the >problem yourself. Hopefully this will help. > >Are you sure that your BIOS supports booting hdh? What happens if you >select hdh as primary boot device? >Does your BIOS have the same idea of the order of devices as Debian had >during the install (see also my last remark)? > >AFAIK, it should also be possible to configure lilo to directly load the >Etch initramfs and kernel (hmm, maybe not across disks). Why not do that? >Why not use grub as your primairy bootloader? It really is much more >flexible for setups like yours. > >Have you checked the grub configuration on hdh and tried reïnstalling it? >You can use the "rescue mode" of the installer to do this (see boot help >screens and installation guide). > >With your setup, you should also be aware of the first erratum listed on: >http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata >However, you don't seem to be at that stage yet, though it _could_ be >involved it grub's /boot/grub/device.map was setup incorrect. > >Cheers, >FJP > > > Thanks for your reply, I got the thing moving now. I moved from /dev/hdh to /dev/hdh1. The problem is in my head I guess, aka "my thoughts during install":
During install of etch the question "Do you want to place grub in the MBR?" pops up. For my system it is not clear which MBR the debian-installer is going to use (I have 3 MBR's, one for of each disk). So I choose "NO" and put the thing in /dev/hdh, because I want to use the MBR of /dev/hdh. (reason: I want to use grub i.s.o. lilo as my default bootloader as suggested above). Is it possible to change the debian-installer so that is can handle this issue? Cheers, Willem
