Missing bootloader for XFS installs

[Nikolaus Rath]

If the fs of / is xfs, the installer doesn't install a bootloader but complains that there's none available for this system. Changing the FS to ext3 correctly installs grub.

Correct behaviour would be to give warning if XFS is selected in the installer *and* to try LILO instead of grub. Maybe its also sensible to check whether there are still problems with grub and XFS at all, as it works perfectly here.

[Nikolaus Rath (nikratio)]

Ok, apparently this was caused by selecting XFS as filesystem. With ext3 it worked fine.

Why didn't the installer warn me when I selected XFS, and why didn't it try LILO after (silently) not using grub?

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Could you attach /var/log/installer/syslog to this bug, please?

[Nikolaus Rath (nikratio)]

Here's the syslog from the second (successfull) install. The log of the first install got overwritten when I reinstalled.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I'm afraid that second syslog is no use to me. Perhaps somebody else has the same problem and can provide a log.

[Nikolaus Rath (nikratio)]

Ok, I reproduced the problem on my laptop with an usb drive. New installer log is attached.

[Nikolaus Rath (nikratio)]

installer/syslog for install on XFS partition.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Ah, reproduced. Looks like it's just a syntax error in lilo-installer.isinstallable; I'm testing the fix now.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

lilo-installer (1.14ubuntu3) dapper; urgency=low

  * Fix syntax error in isinstallable script (closes: Malone #43820).
  * Add a collection of nasty little hacks to make the postinst work with
    non-devfs partition names.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Wed, 24 May 2006 12:53:54 +0100