Hi, I'm reviewing the current Debian release notes to try to help get them in shape for squeeze, and I came across this statement in the section on "upgrading": The lilo package will offer to do this for you as part of the upgrade, but if you decline or don't see the prompt, you should run lilo by hand: # /sbin/lilo Notice this is needed even if you did not upgrade your system's kernel, as lilo's second stage will change due to the package upgrade. However, I can't see any reason why this last statement would be true; the lilo package doesn't contain any files that are shipped in /boot, and the only files copied to /boot as part of the postinst are bmp files. So as far as I can see, the only time the second-stage bootloader is updated on disk is when you run /sbin/lilo. Should this last sentence be dropped, or have I overlooked something? Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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