Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes: > Andrés Roldán wrote: >> If you look into the lilo.config file on debian directory of the lilo >> source, you will notice that this warning is being displayed because there >> is a file called /boot/boot.b being either a symbolic link or a normal >> file. Those files were used by lilo prior to 22.3.3 versions and you >> _really_ need to rerun lilo if you are upgrading from such lower versions. >> This is the case when upgrading from woody to sarge. That's why this >> debconf note is there. >> >> The question is, why are those files there when installing a new system? >> Newer versions of lilo don't create that file. If lilo-installer is >> creating it, I'd really want to know why. > > Could it have anything to do with the lilo.conf file having > install=/boot/boot.b in it? That syntaxis is deprecated. If you look at the manual page, you will notice that you can simply put anything like install=bmp, install=menu or install=text and lilo will know what to do with that options. If lilo-installer is using that kind of syntaxis with the default lilo.conf file, it should really change that. > > -- > see shy jo -- Andrés Roldán <aroldan@debian.org> GPG Key-ID: 0xB29396EB http://people.fluidsignal.com/~aroldan
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