Description of problem: I upgraded (from redhat 7.3, I believe) an installation that used the lilo bootloader with the line "single-key" in lilo.conf. When the installer modified lilo.conf, it added a new entry with a long label (not a single character). I presume that when it ran lilo, that failed (certainly, when I booted the rescue toolkit and tried to run lilo, it failed). The result was that after the upgrade, there was no sign of the new installation. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: I don't want to try to reproduce it, but I would guess that it's easy to do so. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Can you provide the complete traceback you received?
I don't believe I got a traceback. The installation appeared to complete successfully, but when it booted aferwards, it booted the old (pre-upgrade) kernel.
Can you provide what your lilo.conf looked like?
I think that this is what I ended up with in lilo.conf after the installation completed. I made it work by commenting-out the line "single-key" and re-running lilo. I believe the installer added the block "image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5" and changed the line "default=" and left everything else the same. boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt # display boot prompt #vga=6 # vga 50 line mode timeout=50 # 5 sec timeout default=2.6.16-1.2122_F single-key # use single keypress, no return reqrd lba32 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 label=2.6.16-1.2122_F read-only append="idebus=66 pci=biosirq root=LABEL=/" initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.img image=/boot/bzImage label=l root=/dev/hda3 read-only append="idebus=66 pci=biosirq" image=/boot/bzImage label=z root=/dev/hda3 read-only append="idebus=66" image=/boot/bzImage.old.1 label=m root=/dev/hda3 read-only #image=/boot/vmlinuz #label=f #root=/dev/hda3 #read-only
I am unable to reproduce this problem. If you continue to experience it with later releases of Fedora, please feel free to reopen this bug report.