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Re: Lilo Upgrade Bug



On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 23:55, Brian May wrote:
>     Russell> Bug 121341 filed against LILO should be release critical
>     Russell> too as I believe it may break things on upgrade from
>     Russell> Potato for some people.
>
>     Russell> However I can't reproduce it, and neither can joey now...
>
> The bug report seems to imply that the bug occurs when upgrading from
> 21.7 to 22.1:
>
> Reading boot sector from /dev/hda
> Merging with /boot/boot.b
> Fatal: First boot sector is version 21.7. Expecting version 22.1.
>
> However stable only seems to have version 21.4.
>
> Maybe upgrading from 21.4 is OK?
>
> Also, the above code seems to read the boot sector (v21.7) and merges
> it with /boot/boot.b (v22.1). Is this normal?
>
> Have you tried downgrading the boot sector to an old version again,
> and upgrading?

Yes, I tried all combinations I could think of and so did joey...

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