Aaron Peromsik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> So, after about five nights worth of 56K mirror and rsync spread over a
> couple weeks, I finally managed to burn a Helios CD and install it.
>
:-)
> Things are mostly working fine now, but I had two problems with the upgrade
> process which someone might want to investigate:
>
> (1) My CD writer was no longer recognized. A bit of web browsing pointed at
> the culprit: the overwritten lilo.conf which no longer had the kernel
> parameter to specify that hdd should be using ide-scsi.
>
> It would be neat if the existing lilo.conf could be preserved as much
> as possible during upgrades, especially "append=" kernel options.
>
> Or does Panoramix already do this?
>
well i've checked, and here is the result:
- panoramix does install on kernel not an upgrade. in lilo.conf entry is added
but the old one is still there with its old parameters.
- the global append option (aka not per images option) is kept (well at least
now it will be :)
