Debian Bug report logs -
#24168
Hamm: lilo installed to partition, not MBR
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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org:
Bug#24168.
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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):
I installed hamm on the 3rd partition of my drive, and requested, during
installation, to have lilo installed on the MBR of the drive to boot
Debian as default.
Rebooted, lilo only said "2FA:" and froze. After a few hours and 7 or 8
reinstalls, I finally figured out that lilo was installing to /dev/hda3,
which was my / partition, and not /dev/hda as I requested. Changing that
fixed it immediately.
Be happy...
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Bug assigned to package `boot-floppies'.
Request was from jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl
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Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Enrique Zanardi <sr1-boot-floppies@debian.org>:
Bug#24168; Package boot-floppies.
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Acknowledgement sent to Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@wiggy.ml.org>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Enrique Zanardi <sr1-boot-floppies@debian.org>.
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Message #12 received at 24168@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):
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Previously Stormy Henderson wrote:
> Rebooted, lilo only said "2FA:" and froze. After a few hours and 7 or 8
> reinstalls, I finally figured out that lilo was installing to /dev/hda3,
> which was my / partition, and not /dev/hda as I requested. Changing that
> fixed it immediately.
That prompt was from mbr, not from lilo. You get that prompt if it
cannot find an active partition.
Wichert.
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