I just did an aptitude update and upgrade today on my Etch system, and after a few minutes, I get a prompt asking me if I want to automatically run elilo. Now, the description for elilo is:
Description: Bootloader for systems using EFI-based firmware This is the Linux bootloader for systems using the Intel EFI firmware specification. This includes all ia64 systems, and some ia32 systems. I never told it to install elilo. I don't know if I have EFI-based firmware. WTF? My current bootloader is lilo, since grub doesn't play nicely with XFS. sigel:~# apt-cache rdepends elilo elilo Reverse Depends: gnu-efi bootcd-ia64 sigel:~# dpkg -l gnu-efi "bootcd*" Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-=================================-=================================- ======================================================================== ========== pn bootcd <none> (no description available) pn bootcd-dvdplus <none> (no description available) pn bootcd-hppa <none> (no description available) pn bootcd-i386 <none> (no description available) pn bootcd-ia64 <none> (no description available) pn bootcd-mkinitrd <none> (no description available) ii gnu-efi 3.0c-1 Library for developing EFI applications sigel:~# apt-cache rdepends gnu-efi gnu-efi Reverse Depends: sigel:~# I also don't recall having installed gnu-efi. BTW, I do NOT have an ia64 system. It's a Pentium 4 2.8 GHz. Thanks! -- Kevin
