On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 03:11:08PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > I'm sure I'm not the only one that has lilo's postinst intrude on > boot-floppies' screen? nope your not. > Has this been reported as a bug against lilo? yes bug#110258 > Is this going to be fixed? apparently not, i proposed a couple completly viable and trivially implemented solutions to this, but the bug is old and ignored. > It looks like the output should go to tty4, I > guess the redirects aren't working right then? I apologize for not > having read or searched the archives for this before posting. Feel free > to ignore. ;) no lilo is intentionally redirecting its output to /dev/tty. the solution is a) don't even echo that crap at all, put it in README.Debian where it belongs, or b) check for $Noninterative and don't echo anything if its set. its a problem in the lilo package, not boot-floppies, so we are at the mercy of the maintainer who doesn't seem to care about this. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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