Re: New LILO version, was Re: Woody upgrading problems, LILO and debconf
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 03:03:08PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> this way when lilo is upgraded your active bootloader living in /boot
> is NEVER touched in ANY way by the upgrade process, including
> attemping to move the existing files to .preserved hoping that didn't
> just break the installed bootblock. it would for the first time
> allow the lilo package to be upgraded with a true *zero* percent
> chance of breaking the active, working bootloader.
>
> then there would truly be no reason to rerun lilo in the postinst,
> only reason to do so is to activate the new version. which IMO should
> be up to the admin to do at thier leisure.
Sounds just like the way the grub package works already.
Hamish
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