On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 12:29:28AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > I just reread the mail (it is in german so will most probably not help > > you). It does look like a user error now. Obviously the swap partition > > was marked bootable in cfdisk but I guess dinstall installed LILO > > into the root partition (which was not activated). > > I don't think LILO cares if a partition is marked bootable -- I think > it's only the DOS MBR that cares about that... That's right, but if he did not install it into MBR it never gets loaded. > > That way I assume the old LILO installed there by the SuSE installer > > was invoked loading the old kernel (which obviously was not > > overwritten by the installation) booting the Debian partition. Or > > something like that. > > That's possible -- should I close the bug? > > If not, if the user things it was our bug, I'd need the complete > installer.log as well as fdisk -l output. I would do so - I am not that interested in tracking the user and getting more info out of him since he is unlikely to be willing to reinstall his system. Thanks Torsten
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