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[seth AT smgl.positivism.org]

On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 12:33:56PM -0700, David Braaten wrote:
> 
> Well, I was about to complain that I couldn't login
> after installing x86-64 version of the ISO, but
> in the 10 minutes it took me to read the previous
> reports on test5, the login went through.
> 
> I think it could be because of the 'mail check'.

Please track this down if you can and file a bug :)

> 
> The other issue is editing the boot configuration.
> lilo is the only choice for x86_64, so I don't
> know if choosing grub does something different,
> but it does not prompt me to edit lilo.conf until
> after it installs lilo to the MBR/boot partition, and 
> after it prompts me to edit lilo.conf, it does not
> run lilo again to set the new configuration.
> I'd like to be able to edit the conf before it 
> installs so I can boot more than just the last 
> partition I installed to.

Yes, that needs some work, and grub does not work on x86_64 due to grub 
requiring a 32-bit compilation environment.  While lilo is 32-bit, at 
least it can be compiled in a 64-bit environment with bin86, which is 
small, so we support lilo on that platform.

Please file a bug on what you noticed with the bootloader installation.

Personally I've been waiting for the next generation iso as we've had a 
bunch of work there before trying out the bitrot in the old bootloader 
code -- it seems to have regressed in the current version, as I 
installed my last install's bootloader by hand on my new laptop.

Seth

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