Re: lilo.conf
w>>>>> "Marc" == Marc Wilson <marc@moonkingdom.net> writes:
Marc> Why the hell are you doing anything at ALL? You're not the
Read <URL:http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0101/msg00004.html>.
Marc> maintainer, your preinst/postinst is screwed, you trash a
Marc> working configuration with unwarranted assumptions on your
Marc> own part and don't even save a backup of the original
Marc> configuration. I had SIX working kernel images defined in
Marc> my configuration, all in /boot. Now I have NONE, because
Marc> you removed their configurations, and replaced them with
Marc> configurations pointing to the root of the filesystem where,
Marc> needless to say, there are no kernel images.
The scripts probably should (at the very least) make a backup copy of
/etc/lilo.conf, just in case. Other people have made other comments on
this.
--
Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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