Re: Lenny's debian-installer installs Lilo when using lvm

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Ricardo <ricardogh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

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