Bug#337779: marked as done (release-notes do not suggest re-running lilo)
On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 02:46:44PM +0000, Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Jens Seidel said:
> > On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 12:48:20AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> > > That this is now documented in lilo does not mean it should not be
> > > documented in the RN too.
> >
> > Indeed. I also noticed that during a regular kernel update lilo is not
> > always called. That's probably a bug in kernel-package even if it is
> > currently reported against linux-2.6 in #396422.
>
> I have noticed that the defaults put into kernel-img.conf differ based
> on when the system was installed. Once do_bootloader = Yes has ben
> added to the file, though, I've never sen kernal-package postinst's fail
> to run lilo.
OK, I added #396422 to the To: line. Please note that I did not
compile the kernel packages on my host, I used the packages from the
archive, so my kernel-img.conf has no effect.
I could also reproduce it multiple times (and eliminated other possible
problems this way).
Jens
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