Bug#442103: initramfs-tools: update-initramfs fails with lilo and a degraded raid1 array

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 04:00:39PM +0100, Jens Thiele wrote:
> Let me see if I got you right:
> You want to mark it as wontfix because older versions of lilo do
> not provide -H => if one adds -H to the lilo invocations in
> update-initramfs there might be problems during update from etch?
> 
> Maybe we could test the lilo version and add -H if version > some
> version?
> But in the end this is not really a good solution because maybe not
> everyone wants to use -H.
> Hmm. I think the only sensible solution would be to provide an option in
> the lilo.conf

no noise.

yes you got me right, the stable lilo has no -H switch thus
you would have to add a versioned depend to make sure that the 
lilo you are running is new enough. i doubt that any grub/grub2 user
might be happy about that.

so let lilo die slowly and painful.
 
-- 
maks