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Bug#337779: marked as done (release-notes do not suggest re-running lilo)

Your message dated Thu, 21 Dec 2006 20:47:08 +0000
with message-id <E1GxUom-0006p8-2a@ries.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#337779: fixed in lilo 1:22.7.3-1
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.

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Package: release-notes

Yesterday I upgraded a machine from woody to sarge, reading and
carefully following the procedure given in the release notes.

The upgrade went generally smoothly (in contrast to my experiences
on my own machine, but that's another story). Then I read section
4.6, `Things to do before rebooting', did everything appropriate in
there, and rebooted.

The machine turned out to be unbootable. I emergency-booted it by
the use of the GRUB floppy image in the `grub-disk' package (which
is the best rescue floppy I've seen in ages), re-ran lilo, and then
all was well.

Since we hadn't upgraded the kernel (as the release notes told us
not to), it hadn't occurred to me that we might need to re-run lilo.
However, we did, and presumably (with hindsight) the reason was that
the LILO second stage had changed due to the upgrade of the lilo
package itself. At no point did lilo automatically re-run (probably
a good thing - I might have had the package installed but not
currently have been using it as my bootloader) or offer to re-run
(which perhaps it should have).

It would have saved a _lot_ of pain if section 4.6 of the release
notes had prominently contained a notice saying `make sure you
re-run lilo if you're using it as your bootloader'.

I'm not entirely sure whether this should be in the release notes or
whether the lilo package should have displayed a notice as part of
its upgrade. Please feel free to reassign this bug to the lilo
package if the latter is more appropriate. However, I'm absolutely
sure that _something_ should have reminded me to rerun lilo!

Cheers,
Simon
-- 
Simon Tatham         "Thieves respect property; they only wish the property to
<anakin@pobox.com>    be their own, that they may more properly respect it."

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Source: lilo
Source-Version: 1:22.7.3-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
lilo, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

lilo-doc_22.7.3-1_all.deb
  to pool/main/l/lilo/lilo-doc_22.7.3-1_all.deb
lilo_22.7.3-1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/l/lilo/lilo_22.7.3-1.diff.gz
lilo_22.7.3-1.dsc
  to pool/main/l/lilo/lilo_22.7.3-1.dsc
lilo_22.7.3-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/l/lilo/lilo_22.7.3-1_i386.deb
lilo_22.7.3.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/l/lilo/lilo_22.7.3.orig.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 337779@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Andrés Roldán <aroldan@debian.org> (supplier of updated lilo package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Format: 1.7
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:27:23 +0000
Source: lilo
Binary: lilo-doc lilo
Architecture: source i386 all
Version: 1:22.7.3-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Andrés Roldán <aroldan@debian.org>
Changed-By: Andrés Roldán <aroldan@debian.org>
Description: 
 lilo       - LInux LOader - The Classic OS loader can load Linux and others
 lilo-doc   - Documentation for LILO (LInux LOader)
Closes: 303009 304776 337779 384551
Changes: 
 lilo (1:22.7.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * New upstream release. (Closes: #384551)
   * debian/patches/01_devmapper.dpatch:
     - Removed as it is already on upstream source.
   * debian/patches/*.dpatch:
     - Updated to fit new version.
   * debian/README.Debian:
     - Add suggestion to run /sbin/lilo after upgrading or dist-upgrading.
       (Closes: 337779)
   * debian/rules:
     - Now make is done with make all; make docs
   * debian/patches/18_mkrescue_default_size.dpatch:
     - Now default size when making an ISO image is 16MB. (Closes: #303009)
   * debian/patches/01_buggy_bios_workaround.dpatch:
     - Avoid a division by zero on buggy BIOS that return 0 sectors when
       setting LBA. (Closes: #304776)
Files: 
 0de08458d392069b1e0468d03dcd3943 731 admin optional lilo_22.7.3-1.dsc
 1dbc4430088c5e0f5a5ad106dc6b7131 438887 admin optional lilo_22.7.3.orig.tar.gz
 b62023808542270cda6e5b89921e227b 185884 admin optional lilo_22.7.3-1.diff.gz
 977946c86d5236800c1259735d6f5798 343748 admin optional lilo_22.7.3-1_i386.deb
 b19391913194a81abb7f57b0b5a83100 225952 doc optional lilo-doc_22.7.3-1_all.deb

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