RE: lilo.conf

["Marc Wilson" <marc@moonkingdom.net>]

Why the hell are you doing anything at ALL?  You're not the maintainer, your
preinst/postinst is screwed, you trash a working configuration with
unwarranted assumptions on your own part and don't even save a backup of the
original configuration.  I had SIX working kernel images defined in my
configuration, all in /boot.  Now I have NONE, because you removed their
configurations, and replaced them with configurations pointing to the root
of the filesystem where, needless to say, there are no kernel images.

You removed my PASSWORD definitions.  So much for security, eh?  You removed
my 'lba32' setting.  And you didn't even mention that you were going to do
it before it happened.  You, sir, are a menace.

Your comments in postinst are insulting and intentionally inflammatory.  I'd
hope that you can at least make the claim that English isn't your first
language, because if it is, you've really got problems.

Whyinhell are you making NMU's on critical system files when you don't know
what you're doing?

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Marc Wilson
mwilson@moonkingdom.net
mwilson@cts.com
http://www.moonkingdom.net/mwilson

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Russell Coker [mailto:russell@coker.com.au]
Sent:	Friday, January 05, 2001 6:52 PM
To:	debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:	lilo.conf

I am working on the Debian package of lilo and am writing code for
auto-generating lilo.conf files.

Below is an example of the type of lilo.conf that can be generated.  The
debconf asks whether you want boot or boot-menu as the boot loader, it asks
what VGA mode you want, what parameters to append, and what DOS partitions
to
setup with the "other=" settings.  The rest is inferred from the running
system.

If your lilo.conf has things that aren't in this which you think should be
in
debconf then please do an anonymous ftp to ivanova.coker.com.au and upload
it
to the incoming directory.  I'll try and make the next version do what you
require.

boot=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
root=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3
compact
install=/boot/boot-menu.b
delay=20
map=/boot/map
append="video=vesa:ywrap,pmipal,mtrr"
vga=791
read-only
image=/vmlinuz
    label=Linux
image=/vmlinuz.old
    label=old
other=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
    label=part1
    table=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc

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