Bug#920309: Acknowledgement (lilo-installer: lilo fails to install on virtio environments)

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 12:23:31PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
>Hi, 
>
>i was asked yesterday to try to avoid virtio as harddisk driver, which
>i did. This now works like a charm, i can install and successfully boot
>the VM in kvm.
>
>So it seems it is /dev/vda being the problem for lilo-installer.

Ack. Thanks for confirming!

>Still, the error message could be a bit more explaining rather than
>saying "lilo exited with exit code 1".

Nod. That would be helpful, but with such an old niche package it's
not likely to see much love. As one of the most recent uploaders of
lilo-installer, I'm instead thinking that it's time we remove the
package instead. Upstream lilo development looks to have stopped
again, and I'm not convinced we're helping our users if we continue to
claim to support lilo.

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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