Bug 375 - Setup provides lilo boot label for non-bootable disks, and fails
Summary: Setup provides lilo boot label for non-bootable disks, and fails
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: setuptool
Version: 5.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Lawrence
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1998-12-10 03:19 UTC by Nick Urbanik
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1998-12-29 21:06:43 UTC
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Description Nick Urbanik 1998-12-10 03:19:52 UTC 
When install/upgrade, lilo fails.

This is because setup has written a lilo.conf that tries
to start up non-bootable partitions.

Lilo fails, leaving lilo.conf to be edited manually,
(the non-bootable parititions to be commented out) and lilo
to be re-run.

A problem for newcomers to Linux.
Comment 1 Jay Turner 1998-12-10 15:58:59 UTC 
Need more information about where you installed Lilo and what
partitition Lilo sets to boot.
Comment 2 David Lawrence 1998-12-10 19:35:59 UTC 
Also a dump of what the lilo.conf file that is getting written
contains would be helpful.
Comment 3 David Lawrence 1998-12-29 21:06:59 UTC 
This report has been closed due to lack of responce from user.

It may be reopned if needed.
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