Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes: > Package: lilo, lilo-installer > Severity: normal > Tags: d-i > > When lilo-installer installs lilo in the debian installer, lilo tries to > display a debconf note warning the user that they need to run > /sbin/lilo. Since it is running in noninteractive mode, debconf mails If you look into the lilo.config file on debian directory of the lilo source, you will notice that this warning is being displayed because there is a file called /boot/boot.b being either a symbolic link or a normal file. Those files were used by lilo prior to 22.3.3 versions and you _really_ need to rerun lilo if you are upgrading from such lower versions. This is the case when upgrading from woody to sarge. That's why this debconf note is there. The question is, why are those files there when installing a new system? Newer versions of lilo don't create that file. If lilo-installer is creating it, I'd really want to know why. > this note to root (exim redirects it to user mail). Then lilo-installer > goes on and runs lilo to make the system bootable; exactly what the > note was warning needs to be done. > > This is especially annoying if the DNS of the machine is messed up, then > there is a blue screen in d-i while lilo is installed, waiting for a DNS > timeout. > > This needs to be integrated better. If lilo truely needs to display this > note (why? grub does not display a similar note), then there needs to be > some mechanism for lilo to be told that it is being installed by > lilo-installer, and that lilo-installer will take care of this and the > note need not be displayed in this case. > > -- > see shy jo -- Andrés Roldán <aroldan@debian.org> GPG Key-ID: 0xB29396EB http://people.fluidsignal.com/~aroldan
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