Bug 46956

Summary:	lilo spews to laser printer when boot fails
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide	Reporter:	Jonathan Kamens <h1k6zn2m>
Component:	lilo	Assignee:	Doug Ledford <dledford>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	1.0
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description Jonathan Kamens 2001-07-02 14:20:02 UTC

I upgraded to lilo-21.4.4-14 and didn't rerun /sbin/lilo (that should
happen automatically, but that's another bug report).  My machine wouldn't
boot properly the next time I rebooted -- it printed "LI" and then beeped
continuously.  In addition, to that, however, it spewed the contents of my
console to my laser printer over and over again.  I can't find this
documented anywhere, nor can I figure out how to make this behavior go
away.  This is Very Bad.

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2002-06-04 06:32:42 UTC

That's just random bios brokenness that causes it to print... lilo isn't doing
anything itself which would do so.