Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 01:38:56PM -0500, BruceG wrote:
> [cut]
>> > Willem-Jan Meijer wrote:
>> > > but when I wanted to boot I saw the letters LI, and after that the
>> system hangs.
>> 
>> I had the same problem after my upgrade. If you made a boot floppy during
>> your initial installation, or after upgrading - you should be able to boot
>> of your floppy. I put my boot floppy in the floppy drive, booted up, after
>> the kernel loaded, I was where I usually am with a good running system. At
>> that point, I ran Lilo and was a happy camper. I don't know if Knoppix will
>> do that for you or not, I didn't try with Knoppix - just the floppy.
>
> Yeah, WTF causes that?  I get that at seemingly random times, and I 
> haven't been able to diagnose it.  I can fix it by booting off the Woody 
> CD and choosing "Mount Existing Partition" and  "Make System Bootable", 
> and it adds entries for my custom kernel, but it doesn't use my 
> customized lilo.conf.  I have to *rerun* lilo after I boot it, and boot 
> again.
>
> Is that "to be expected" when apt does something like update lilo or 
> something else?  Should I make a habit of rerunning lilo when in doubt, 
> after I apt-get upgrade?

LILO smartly detect whether it's _necessary_ to run and will warn the user
to do that.

By 'necessary' I mean "the system will not boot again if you don't do that". 

However, it is recommended to run whenever you install a new version.

>
> Thanks 
>
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