During the last part of installation when lilo is set up, and the user is queried as to what he wants to name the lilo setup, instead of it being the default word 'linux', they could enter 'linux ric' with a space between the two words and when booting have lilo barf finding the space. We're seeing quite a few tickets where the user says it completely installs then refuses to boot. They'd forget what they named it, while it bombs and we're supposed to guess what they did because it allowed them to. Ric
During the installation the return code of lilo isn't checked correctly! If you run lilo with a blank with a configuration like below: i.e.: default = Red Hat ... label=Red Hat Lilo returns: Syntax Error near line XXX During the installation this error is not handled, thus the routine pretends a successful installtion.
fixed in current releases