Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 29498
Installer runs LILO without asking for permission
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:31:46 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.5-15smp i586) Notebook install, but with 'select packages'... after install, LILO had been run, without asking if I wanted it. (I didn't of course. ;) Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. notebook install 2. select individual packages (don't know if this is necessary.) 3. complete installation. Actual Results: My notebook needs lba32, so it wouldn't boot. Expected Results: When asked if I wanted to install a bootstrap loader, I'd say no, and it would leave things alone, so I could go in with the existing (other) boot and fix things up. 'linear' doesn't work w/ my notebook (Toshiba Satellite 330CDT), the hard disk is about 20GB.
Did you choose automatic or manual partitioning? May be related to bug 29502.
I chose manual partitioning; (The machine was already partitioned, w/ several other installations of Linux on it.) It ran the druid, and I selected the mount points. The wolverine seems to have left the other partitions alone.
We (Red Hat) should really try to resolve this before next release.
Yes, please always add a lilo config option during install. I've already complained about this type of behaviour.
*** Bug 29729 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
There is a check-box around the time that discs are partitioned saying "install lilo" -- this is checked by default. Perhaps this is the issue?
You can control lilo installation on all types of installs.
I was warned before I overwrote the target partitions, but not when I zapped the bootstrap loader. If not a bug, it's still poor design to be inconsistent in this way with irreversible system changes. Anyhow, thanks for your time. The new product is looking nice.