From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90) Description of problem: After upgrading window 98 to window-me, I lost LILO. I followed resolution as documented in http://kb.redhat.com/view.php?eid=94 to do an upgrade. After selecting create boot disk and create LILO, the installer started the upgrade process. Then it threw an exception and asked me to report a bug. The message was: Traceback (innermost last): File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 19, in run rc = self.todo.doInstall () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 2081, in doInstall self.hdList, self.upgrade, langlist) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/lilo.py", line 277, in install lilo.read (instRoot + '/etc/lilo.conf') File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/lilo.py", line 140, in read if image: self.addImage(image) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/lilo.py", line 79, in addImage config.getEntry('label') File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/lilo.py", line 54, in getEntry return self.items[item] KeyError: label Local variables in innermost frame: self: root="/dev/hdb8" append="hdc=ide-scsi" item: label ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'resState' p3 S'' sS'progressWindow' p4 (igui ProgressWindow (dp5 S'total' p6 I0 sS'window' p7 (igtk GtkWindow (dp8 S'_o' p9 <failed> Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start installer using CD-ROM 2.Follow instructions to upgrade 3.On the page to create LILO, select create boot disk and create LILO. Choose install LILO boot record on dev/hda MBR. Whether selecting default boot partition to be dos or linux did not change the result (i.e. same exception threw). 4. Select "next" Actual Results: Installer started to process. Then exception was thrown. Expected Results: Installer should continue to start upgrading. Additional info: I also tried to use the boot disk to boot. It failed to boot up. So I cannot get into Linux at all.
The instructions do not say to do a complete upgrade installation; instead, you should run lilo prior to the install completing. But, what did your /etc/lilo.conf look like since it appears it got misparsed (or was invalid and we didn't catch the fact that it was invalid)
Since I cannot boot into Linux, I cannot tell what is in /etc/lilo.conf. I used CD-ROM to start up the installer and then selected option for every question the installer prompted. There was no option for me to run LILO. There was an option to whether create LILO and I selected this option. I then selected "next". The installer started to do some processing and then threw the exception as described.
You have to go to tty2 from the installer to run lilo. The installer does not provide this as an option. At this point, this is not a bug and as bugzilla is not a support forum, for further support, you will either need to contact our support organization or ask on a general mailing list such as enigma-list (https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/enigma-list) or redhat-list.