Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] New SOHO ISO's - 1.41txz

[Newt <gen...@gm...>]

Hello,

I haven't forgot about this M0E... I've just been busy lately. I might have time
tonight to give this a shot. Would you like me to repeat with 1.41txz like last
time or should I use the updated 1.42txz isos (already downloaded)?

You've probably already done something about the os-prober blank label issue, but
if not then perhaps if os-prober returns an empty string then something as simple
as 'unknown' could end up in the label field. The idea is that a label is better
than no label since lilo will fail with no label. Even better might be if
os-prober returns an empty string then a label indicating filesystem and/or
partition (e.g. ntfs-sda1, vfat-hda1, etc.).

Last, I actually have a bootable OSX partition (sdc1) - you can see it in the
partition sequence jpeg I attached to a previous email. This was not detected by
vinstaller at the bootloader section, and therefore was not a boot menu option.
How do grub and lilo handle booting osx systems, if at all? I idea being that if a
true mac user wanted to installed VL in a dual-boot scenario would lilo/grub leave
them without a boot menu option to boot into OSX?

Cheers, newt

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Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 7:08:17 AM, you wrote:

ML> The windows label comes from whatever os-prober returns..
ML> I'd like you to re-do this installation and send me the resulting
ML> lilo.conf (unaltered) the one that causes the failure if you can
ML> please.

ML> About the swap partitions being at the bottom of the list.
ML> This is the way I designed it. I just have a thing about keeping swap
ML> partitions mixed in with other FS's in the system.
ML> Same reason there is a visual difference between a regular partition
ML> and a swap partition. I think they should stand out from the rest.