Bug 5730

Summary:	lilo boot partition changes when upgrading
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	luca.formaggia
Component:	installer	Assignee:	Jay Turner <jturner>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.1	CC:	srevivo
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Hardware:	i386
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Description luca.formaggia 1999-10-08 15:36:40 UTC

When upgrading from 6.0 to 6.1 in a dual-boot system lilo
was reconfigured with boot=/dev/hda, while originally was
boot=/dev/hda5.

Comment 1 ville.sulko 1999-10-11 14:44:59 UTC

In addition, upgrade does not preserve special configurations in
lilo.conf, such as mine 'disk=/dev/sda bios=0x81, disk=/dev/sdb
bios=0x80' [yes, it's stupid not to have the lowest SCSI-ID as the
boot-disk, but this one is like it is for historic reasons]. This
rendered the system unbootable after upgrade.
Fortunately I was able to fix it using just the bootable RH61 CD,
but the fact that the original lilo.conf wasn't even preserved as
lilo.conf.rpmsave made the fix a bit harder, since I didn't remember
the correct syntax for those configuration lines...

Comment 2 Jay Turner 1999-10-11 15:41:59 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5578 ***