On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Ricardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all > > I did a quick search in the bug reports (don't have much time now) and > didn't find the exactly same problem I'm having with the newest > debian-installer. On an Acer Travelmate 6292 I just bought, I created a big > partition occuping the whole disk and created a lvm volume group with 3 lvm > logical volumes (swap, root and home). At the end of the install process, I > can only install Lilo as boot loader, Grub doesn't appear as an option. The > problem is that the system is taking too long to boot (it stays at least > half a minute on the stage where lilo tries to load the kernel). It's a long > time ago since I used lilo for the last time, and I really don't need to > leave grub at this moment, since I'm really confortable with it. So, should > the debian-installer behave like that? Btw, I tried to install the system > both with the lenny Beta2 image and the weekly build from 25-Aug-08 (the > newest). Also tried removing all dash symbols from the lvm names (there was > a bug report that related this too a problem with grub), it didn't work. Now > I simply installed the system without LVM and Grub is working as expected. > Any ideas? Should I fill a bug report (never did that before)? > > Thanks in advance, > > Ricardo > > AFAIK, you must have a seperate /boot partition if you want to use grub with LVM.
