Bug#119825: Wrong boot= line in lilo.conf
Package: boot-floppies
Version: N/A; reported 2001-11-16
Severity: normal
When the install finished, the "Make System Bootable" option created a
wrong lilo.conf.
The machine had 2 disks: hdc as the target, hdd as the source. There was
nothing on the primary IDE interface. After choosing to install lilo in
the MBR, it only offered to install it into hda. Then lilo tried that,
but was unsuccesful, so I had to manually edit the config file. The
root=/dev/hdc5 line was correct, but the boot=/dev/hda was not. After
correcting it to boot=/dev/hdc lilo installed itself succesfully, and
the system could boot.
The install disks were downloaded from the 3.0.15-2001-10-18 directory.
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
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