Package: lilo
Version: 1:22.6.1-9.3
severity: grave
When cold booting one of my servers after 10 seconds of lilo-timeout I see on
the console:
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boot:
Loading Linux.
BIOS data check successful
Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
===
After that nothing happens.
I think that lilo does not successfully pass "acpi=off" to the kernel,
because when I start with "Linux acpi=off" everything works fine.
My Server requires the Linux Kernel acpi to be switched off to start.
I think that makes lilo nearly unusable for this server and kernel, because I
want it to start without human intervention at the console.
Please adjust severity if you have another opinion.
I use this lilo.conf
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boot=/dev/sda
root=/dev/sda2
install=menu
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
compact
prompt
timeout=100
read-only
#default=ROUTIX
#default=LinuxOLD
default=Linux
other=/dev/sda4
label=ROUTIX
image=/vmlinuz
label=Linux
root=/dev/sda2
initrd=/initrd.img
append="acpi=off"
image=/vmlinuz.old
label = LinuxOLD
root=/dev/sda2
initrd=/initrd.img.old
append="reboot=hard"
other=/dev/sda1
label=DOS
===
I am using Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (alias etch), Kernel Version is
"Linux routix2 2.6.18-4-686 #1 SMP Wed May 9 23:03:12 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux"
and libc Version is "2.3.6.ds1-13".
Linux 2.6.8-3-686 (LinuxOLD) tells me while starting:
...
ACPI disabled because your bios is from 97 and too old
...
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Manfred Brandl
Steirische Verkehrsverbund GmbH
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