Bug#337779: lilo postinst should (offer to) run lilo like it used to
The postinst for the lilo package used to offer to run lilo. Because
it didn't, my colo system had a broken bootloader halfway through my
own upgrade from woody to sarge. I normally run lilo myself anyway
just to be sure but the system crashed due to a kernel bug triggered
by another part of the upgrade before I got around to it; as a result
I had to make a 5-hour round trip to the colo to fix the machine.
I don't think you can make a bug go away by documenting it in the
release notes !
Ian.
(I don't use distribution kernels and the kernel hadn't changed; the
only thing that broke lilo was that the package second stage had been
overwritten.)
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