Package: lilo
Version: 1:22.6.1-7+b1
Severity: grave
Justification: breaks all kernel upgrades
On upgrade, I find that running lilo gives me this:
Fatal: '/dev/sdb' is not a whole disk device
If I remove the "disk=/dev/sdb inaccessible" line from my lilo.conf
and rerun lilo, I instead get:
Cannot proceed maybe you need to add this to your lilo.conf:
disk=/dev/sdb inaccessible
(real error shown below)
Fatal: open /dev/sdb: No such file or directory
This makes it impossible to run lilo. Thus making it impossible to
safely upgrade the kernel. Therefore "grave" severity.
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Eventually I managed a workaround by running "lilo -P ignore", or
adding the ignore-table global option to lilo.conf. However,
this is not a reasonable workaround. I don't want to ignore the
partition table check.
I'm installing the boot sector on *hda*, which is also where the
root partition is located and also where the kernel and initrd are
located. Lilo has no business even *looking* at sdb, but it should
be checking the partition table on hda.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages lilo depends on:
ii debconf 1.5.2 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdevmapper1.02 2:1.02.07-1 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
lilo recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
lilo/bad_bitmap:
lilo/upgrade:
lilo/link1:
lilo/runme: = false
* lilo/new-config:
lilo/link2:
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