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Re: Release upgrade from Woody to Sarge failed reboot lilo problem



This topic may be a few days old, but this is apparently exactly what happened to a server I admin remotely. When I upgraded to the new stable packages, I saw nothing that affected the kernel, therefore rerunning LILO didn't occur to me as something that needed to be done.

Hopefully someone reported a bug report on this against LILO since Monday. Since no changes to the kernel should have affected LILO's boot configuration, it should have had no trouble booting up.

Why do I have LILO running in the first place? When I installed from the Woody CD a year ago, that's all that was offered to me. I wasn't aware, at the time, of the problems known to occur with LILO and so didn't install grub. Now that I live a couple hundred miles from this machine, but continue to admin it, I wouldn't dare attempt to install a new boot loader unless I was physically present.

Clinton



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