Bug 10390
| Summary: | Upgrade puts lilo in wrong place | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Steve Wills <steve> |
| Component: | installer | Assignee: | Erik Troan <ewt> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2000-08-04 20:17:43 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Steve Wills
2000-03-28 15:37:29 UTC
Will be fixed in the next release (hopefully!!!) *** Bug 10391 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Fixed for next release :-) this error is not resolved using the latest pinstripe internal build ... here is the generated lilo.conf from the upgrade: (notice the boot=/dev/md0) boot=/dev/md0 map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message linear default=linux image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-18 label=linux initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.16-18.img read-only root=/dev/md0 but the MBR of the block has been OVERWRITTEN (notice the LILO chars in the dump, the MBR was zeroed out previously): 0000000 z k | l b a L I L O 001 \0 025 004 Z \0 0000020 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 203 m @ 023 001 204 m @ 0000040 023 001 202 m @ 023 001 001 D Z 206 m @ 023 001 207 0000060 m @ 023 001 # @ 023 001 $ @ 023 001 % Here is the attached output run installing and uninstalling lilo via the above /etc/lilo.conf file (note the reference to /dev/hda instead of /dev/md0): % lilo -v LILO version 21.4-4, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger 'lba32' extensions Copyright (C) 1999,2000 John Coffman boot = /dev/hda, map = /boot/map.0302 Reading boot sector from /dev/hda Merging with /boot/boot.b Mapping message file /boot/message Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-18 Mapping RAM disk /boot/initrd-2.2.16-18.img Added linux * /boot/boot.0300 exists - no backup copy made. Writing boot sector. boot = /dev/hda, map = /boot/map.0305 Reading boot sector from /dev/hda Merging with /boot/boot.b Mapping message file /boot/message Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-18 Mapping RAM disk /boot/initrd-2.2.16-18.img Added linux * /boot/boot.0300 exists - no backup copy made. Writing boot sector. % lilo -v -u LILO version 21.4-4, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger 'lba32' extensions Copyright (C) 1999,2000 John Coffman boot = /dev/hda, map = /boot/map.0302 Reading boot sector from /dev/hda Red Hat 7 prompts for where the lilo record should be written, which should fix this defect. |