I don't think that's it, I've never had me-tv running. Not too serious about watching TV, I just have a Diamond TVW750U USB dongle tuner I couldn't get to work under Windows, wanted to try it under Linux. I think that Ubuntu bug relates to having a colon in the file name.
I'm using Lilo in that partition, which I might be able to fix by reinstalling it, but the same thing is likely to happen at some random point in the future. On 11/23/15, Joel Rees <[email protected]> wrote: > Theo, if want to suggest that the OP look at Ubuntu-bugs bug 491602, should > I do so off-list? > > ;-) > > 2015/11/24 1:55 "Alan Corey" <[email protected]>: >> >> It seems like there should be a better way to detect this other than >> trial and error. I put a new 1 TB drive in my laptop (Seagate >> ST1000LM024) about a month ago. Being aware there was such a limit I >> made small boot partitions at the beginning of the drive (I thought): >> 32 GB Windows, 64 GB OpenBSD, 32 GB Linux. As predicted everything >> worked at first, then installing MeTV keys made my Linux unbootable >> with an error from Lilo about the key file being corrupt and I suspect >> it's related to this limit. The original position of the file was >> probably OK, the new file got made in an unreachable position. >> > [...] > > Joel Rees > > Computer memory is just fancy paper, > CPUs just fancy pens. > All is a stream of text > flowing from the past into the future. > -- Credit is the root of all evil. - AB1JX
