Re: SILO on ss20
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If any post-install process runs silo with it's default settings, the
secondary loader will be set to use /etc/silo.conf (which is bad because
it's not on the /boot partition). Due to this, I re-run silo with the '-c
/boot/silo.conf' option.
I don't know how silo acts if the default conf file is a symlink. Does it
point the the actual file or the link itself? Has anyone tried this?
Also does changing /etc/silo.conf to a symlink break anything in Debian
(like consistency checks, package verification, ..etc)?
- -Matt
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Christian Jönsson wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 04:27:57AM -0400, Mark Eichin wrote:
> > > I have placed silo.conf in the /boot fs and made a symbolic link from
> > > /etc/silo.conf to /boot/silo.conf.
> >
> > I've been doing that on my ss10 and sparc5 systems as well...
> >
> > > Why do you rerun silo after an upgrade?
> >
> > the postinst runs siloconfig; at a quick glance, siloconfig prompts
> > about running silo... maybe the /boot/silo.conf option should be more
> > explicitly supported [I tend to forget it myself...]
>
> hmm, but the silo manual states that no run of silo is *required* after
> an upgrade. Is the run a consistency check only then? Anyhow, having a
> symlink from /etc/silo.conf (wherever it's located) to /boot/silo.conf
> (located first on disk, below the 1G "limit") does silo still consider
> it's reading a file where the sym link is located? Could we somehow get
> silo to consider that "file", i.e., symlink, as the actual file, i.e.,
> /boot/silo.conf?
>
> Not messing around with the -c option of silo would be great, using the
> symlink approach is neather IMHO.
>
> Cheers,
>
> /ChJ
>
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