Re: apt-get dist-upgrade breaks lilo. Solved.
Hi
I have discovered what I did wrong to cause this problem.
The NT bootloader requires that the boot sector of the linux
partition be an ordinary file in the NT filesystem.
Each time lilo is run that bootsector changes, so the NT
file has to be rewritten. That's what I forgot.
I copied the new bootsector
(dd if=/dev/hda3 of=/bootsec.new bs=512 count=1), mcopied
/bootsec.new to a floppy, and copied it to NT from there.
Now lilo boots just fine.
apt-get dist-upgrade must have asked to rerun lilo, and I
said ok, while apt-get upgrade did not, so that's
why the boot process was still ok on the one machine that
was not dist-upgraded.
Thanks
Charles Kaufman
chuck@uri.edu
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Charles Kaufman wrote:
> Hi
> I have a lab with 7 pc's. They have been running first debian 2.0, and
> then 2.1, for almost two years. The machines are identical and
> dual boot. The master boot program is NT, and LILO is one of the options
> on it. There is one hard drive. NT is on the first partion,
> linux swap on the second, and linux on the third. The kernel is 2.0.36.
>
> It has worked fine for all this time. The NT part still does.
>
> This week (Tuesday Nov 6) I tried to upgrade to 2.2. I did
> (from ftp.us.debian.org) apt-get update, apt-get upgrade,
> and then, on all but one of the seven, apt-get dist-upgrade.
> Now, on all except the one treated differently, lilo fails
> with LIL-. The other one still boots just fine, and reports debian 2.2
> when it does. I can floppy-boot into the others and the systems seem fine
> once I do, reporting debian 2.2, and I can run /sbin/lilo on them.
>
>
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