Bug 21573 - Installer does not detect duplicate LILO labels
Summary: Installer does not detect duplicate LILO labels
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-12-01 07:04 UTC by Stephen Rasku
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:30 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2001-09-18 19:34:25 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
lilo.conf after upgrade to RH7 (267 bytes, text/plain)
2000-12-02 18:56 UTC, Stephen Rasku
no flags Details
DIfferences from previous version of lilo.conf (592 bytes, patch)
2000-12-02 18:58 UTC, Stephen Rasku
no flags Details | Diff

Description Stephen Rasku 2000-12-01 07:04:19 UTC
I just upgraded from 6.2 and 7.0 and modutils isn't finding modules.dep.  I see the following error in /var/log/messages:

    modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/modules.dep (No such file or directory)

The specified directory doesn't exist but /lib/modules/{2.0.36-0.7,2.2.5-15,2.2.16-22}/modules.dep do exist.  /etc/issue says the kernel version 
is 2.2.14-5.0 but that doesn't exist on my system.  The release notes say that the kernel version is 2.2.16.  I don't know how it is deciding to 
search for 2.2.14-5.0.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2000-12-01 16:45:52 UTC
Something strange happened in your upgrade in that it's booting your
old kernel. Did you boot off an old bootdisk? What does your /etc/lilo.conf
say?

Assigining to the installer, since that's the most likely place this happened.

Comment 2 Stephen Rasku 2000-12-02 18:56:20 UTC
Created attachment 5948 [details]
lilo.conf after upgrade to RH7

Comment 3 Stephen Rasku 2000-12-02 18:58:49 UTC
Created attachment 5949 [details]
DIfferences from previous version of lilo.conf

Comment 4 Stephen Rasku 2000-12-02 19:06:52 UTC
I have attached the lilo.conf created for RH7 as well as the differences from
the previous version.  When specifying the name for my other partition, I
changed it from "dos" to "nt".  This creates a duplicate label and LILO doesn't
like it.  It looks like the installer isn't smart enough to detect this problem.

When I removed the duplicate label, and re-ran lilo.  The computer booted fine.

Comment 5 Michael Fulbright 2000-12-04 18:59:09 UTC
Was this a GUI or TUI install?

Comment 6 Stephen Rasku 2000-12-05 05:18:44 UTC
GUI install.

Comment 7 Brent Fox 2000-12-29 06:41:55 UTC
I have reproduced this bug and I'm looking into it further.

Comment 8 Brent Fox 2001-02-20 04:04:05 UTC
Actually, the problem can be demonstrated in an even simpler way.  If you do an
install of RHL 7 and change the lilo label from 'linux' to something else, after
reboot you will have a lilo.conf file that has been concatenated to itself. 
This, of course, leaves you with an unbootable machine.

Comment 9 Brent Fox 2001-02-20 19:27:14 UTC
Ok, for some reason I can't reproduce the behavior that I was seeing yesterday
with the exact same tree.

Comment 10 Brent Fox 2001-03-20 21:24:55 UTC
The problem with upgrading the kernel version seems to be fixed.  However,
changing the dos label to something else, like 'windows' now results in
duplicate entries...that is, there's the original entry for
http://www.news.com/'dos' and a new one for 'windows'.  Lilo works fine with the
duplicate labels...it doesn't hurt anything, but it is annoying.  However, since
it isn't a critical bug, I'm reluctant to fix it at this point.  Deferring to a
future release.

Comment 11 Brent Fox 2001-03-20 21:40:13 UTC
Uhh, I don't know what voodoo bugzilla did with my last post, but the hyperlink
in there was not supposed to be there.  What I meant was when you change the
label from dos to windows, you get an entry for both in the resulting lilo.conf
file.

Comment 12 Jeremy Katz 2002-02-15 19:28:10 UTC
This should be fixed as of Red Hat Linux 7.2


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