On Saturday 06 January 2001 15:08, Joey Hess wrote: > Russell Coker wrote: > > I have just uploaded LILO 21.6-2 to Woody. I have made it use debconf > > for all the common settings (I can configure lilo.conf for all my > > machines using only debconf). Please test it and let me know of any > > other settings that should be added for debconf. > > > > Also I am concerned about the risk of breaking things. Please let me > > know how it works. > > Well I rather agree with the bug reports that state it should not > overwrite existing working configurations. > > Also, it broke my configuration by pointing to these images: > > image=/vmlinuz > label=Linux > image=/vmlinuz.old > label=old > > That doesn't work, I have kernel-package configured to put them in > /boot.
You don't have sym-links to the root directory? Why not? Hmm. I think I'll make the next version take a list of kernel locations. > It spewed something to the screen which overwrote/corrupted debconf's slang > frontend. I think I caught it using script, it seems to be: > > Running /usr/sbin/liloconfig > > This program only reinstall LiLO with the already given options. > You can reconfigure LiLO with the dpkg-reconfigure lilo or you can use > the old configuration tool, which is now named oldliloconfig. > Here we will run lilo, but now for security reasons we won't do it! > Please verify lilo.conf by hand and send comments to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, and sorry about the data loss ;) > Here we will dd the mbr.b to /dev/sda. > > Finally, all the debconf questions are written in pretty bad English. Yes. They were submitted to me by a Hungarian. I am already in the process of fixing grammar and spelling. -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
