From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: When I use up2date and upgrading from 2.4.9-6 to 2.4.9-12 kernel. I got the messages was: test install of lilo failed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.up2date -u 2. 3. Actual Results: Retrieving list of all available packages... Removing installed packages from list of updates... ######################################## Removing packages marked to skip from list... ######################################## Getting headers for available packages... ######################################## Removing packages with files marked to skip from list... ######################################## Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies... ######################################## Retrieving selected packages... kernel: ########################## Done. Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:kernel ########################################### [100%] /boot/initrd-2.4.9-12.img already exists. Error installing lilo.conf The message was: test install of lilo failed Additional info: [root@images /etc]# vi lilo.conf boot=/dev/sda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message linear default=linux image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2 label=linux.bak initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.2-2.img read-only root=/dev/sda8 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.3-12 label=linux.bak_ root=/dev/sda8 read-only initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.3-12.img image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9-6 label=linux root=/dev/sda8 read-only initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.9-6.img ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ [root@images /etc]#
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