If you "make" a msdos partition with diskdruid during installation, lilo will fail to install. This is because the device does not have a valid filesystem. I reported this to dale before beta testing for 5.6.x+ when I found it while installing RH 5.2, he said that if it appeared in the beta's to let you know. So now I am.
this one looks nasty Matt.
*** Bug 1334 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Lilo warnings are not shown to the user if they occur during installation. As some lilo warnings indicate a serious problem you can easily get caught out and lock up your machine. ------- Additional Comments From gafton 03/18/99 19:40 ------- assigned to msw
*** Bug 1451 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** At the end of the install for 5.2 the user is asked where lilo should be installed. I selected Master Boot Record. The write of the loader to the Boot Record failed. I tried and tried to install lilo via the normal install. Eventually I found that the installer had written a lilo.conf file that was too big to be written to the boot sector. So I removed some entries and then ran lilo. I would think that a safeguard would be in place to keep lilo.conf from growing to be too big. ------- Additional Comments From msw 04/01/99 00:57 ------- it's not that the lilo entries were too big - it's probably that there was an entry for "dos" in the lilo configuration pointing at a dos filesystem that didn't have a valid boot block on it.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4 ***