Re: lilo.conf
On Saturday 06 January 2001 16:57, David B.Harris wrote:
> To quote Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>,
> # On Saturday 06 January 2001 14:55, you wrote:
> # > I request that you provide support for me telling lilo that I don't
> # > want it touching my lilo.conf at all. Also, you should consider how
> # > to deal with changes that the user makes by hand to lilo.conf. If
> you
> # > don't regenerate existing lilo.conf files then you should not have
> # > much of a problem. If you do, then it gets fun.
> #
> # One thing that I am considering is to have a file /etc/lilo.conf.user
> file
> # (or maybe some other name). This file will be included into the
> debconf
> # generated settings just before the "image" parts. Then you could put
> in any
> # other settings you want.
> #
> # I'll put in an option to not change lilo.conf in the next version.
>
> I'd also like to suggest that a file be made which will override any of
> debconf's settings. That way, if I can't have lba32(for instance, if it
> does bad things), I can make sure it never gets there.
The latest version asks if you want lba32, linear, or CHS (default CHS).
For all these things I'll make it default to the safest options. Also
there's an option (of critical priority) allowing you to select to have
debconf never touch your /etc/lilo.conf.
I think that should cover all cases.
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