Re: lilo 21.6-2 default less compatible

2001-01-09 Thread Russell Coker
On Wednesday 10 January 2001 06:53, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > I have just had a trip to boot up a server after an upgrade to our new lilo > package, it was my fault to not know wich of the lilo's options were really > needed, but the question is... > > I think the new lilo's defaults are le

Re: LILO 21.6-2

2001-01-06 Thread Brian May
> "Manoj" == Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Manoj> Why is it that posting to a public forum is seen as a Manoj> superior method compared to actually reading manual pages? Manoj> Here are excerpts from two man pages that show the extents Manoj> of the configu

Re: LILO 21.6-2

2001-01-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> Somebody else recently said that kernel-image packages no longer Brian> maintain these symlinks (at least that was my understanding). Brian> (or perhaps it is now a user configurable item?) Why is it that posting to a public fo

Re: LILO 21.6-2

2001-01-06 Thread Brian May
> "Manoj" == Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Manoj> This is a bug. /boot is not the only location Manoj> kernel-image packages may put image files in. The Manoj> kernel-image packages go to a great deal of trouble to Manoj> correctly create /vmlinuz and /vmlin

Re: LILO 21.6-2

2001-01-06 Thread Joey Hess
Russell Coker wrote: > Also currently if you don't have debconf configured to display "high" > priority messages then the configure phase of installation won't run. The > problem line is: > db_text high lilo/createdit You probably want to use the 'note' data type, not 'text'. See the debconf tu

Re: LILO 21.6-2

2001-01-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Peter" == Peter Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> At the moment, if there is no lilo.conf, the kernel-image >> postinst creates a functioanl lilo.conf that takes into account Peter> Is this wise? You are asking my opinion? A

Re: LILO 21.6-2

2001-01-06 Thread Peter Makholm
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At the moment, if there is no lilo.conf, the kernel-image > postinst creates a functioanl lilo.conf that takes into account Is this wise? I assume that in a perfect world the lilo package would be better to configure itself than some "random"

Re: LILO 21.6-2

2001-01-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Russell" == Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Russell> I have a new version online at http://www.coker.com.au/lilo/ . It adds Russell> /boot/vmlinuz-* automatically and doesn't look for anything in the root Russell> directory. Please try it out and let me know what you think.

Re: LILO 21.6-2

2001-01-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Russell" == Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Russell> On Saturday 06 January 2001 16:22, Chris Rutter wrote: >> On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Russell Coker wrote: >> > You don't have sym-links to the root directory? Why not? >> >> There's absolutely no need or necessarily a desire to do s

Re: LILO 21.6-2

2001-01-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Adam" == Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Adam> On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Russell Coker wrote: >>> You don't have sym-links to the root directory? Why not? >>> Adam> kernel-package doesn't do them anymore. This is not quite

Re: LILO 21.6-2

2001-01-06 Thread Russell Coker
On Saturday 06 January 2001 16:22, Chris Rutter wrote: > On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Russell Coker wrote: > > You don't have sym-links to the root directory? Why not? > > There's absolutely no need or necessarily a desire to do so; besides > which, the point is moot: if you're in the automation arena, you

Re: LILO 21.6-2

2001-01-06 Thread Russell Coker
On Saturday 06 January 2001 15:08, Joey Hess wrote: > Russell Coker wrote: > > I have just uploaded LILO 21.6-2 to Woody. I have made it use debconf > > for all the common settings (I can configure lilo.conf for all my > > machines using only debconf). Please test it and let me know of any > > ot

Re: LILO 21.6-2

2001-01-06 Thread Colin Watson
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sunday 07 January 2001 00:46, Adam Heath wrote: >> On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Hamish Moffatt wrote: >> > Also, [EMAIL PROTECTED] would really be better than a specific >> > address. >> >> Not if he isn't the current maintainer of lilo. > >True. > >So how do I g

Re: LILO 21.6-2

2001-01-06 Thread Russell Coker
On Sunday 07 January 2001 00:46, Adam Heath wrote: > On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 08:08:05PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Please verify lilo.conf by hand and send comments to > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Also, [EMAIL PROTECTED] would really be better t

Re: LILO 21.6-2

2001-01-06 Thread Adam Heath
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 08:08:05PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > > Please verify lilo.conf by hand and send comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Also, [EMAIL PROTECTED] would really be better than a specific address. Not if he isn't the current maintainer o

Re: LILO 21.6-2

2001-01-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 08:08:05PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Please verify lilo.conf by hand and send comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also, [EMAIL PROTECTED] would really be better than a specific address. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: LILO 21.6-2

2001-01-05 Thread Chris Rutter
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Russell Coker wrote: > You don't have sym-links to the root directory? Why not? There's absolutely no need or necessarily a desire to do so; besides which, the point is moot: if you're in the automation arena, you'll notice that kernel-package no longer produces them. Trying

RE: LILO 21.6-2

2001-01-05 Thread Marc Wilson
e who are supposedly maintainers. - Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.moonkingdom.net/mwilson -Original Message- From: Russell Coker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 8:44 PM To: Joey Hess Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subj

Re: LILO 21.6-2

2001-01-05 Thread Brian May
> "Adam" == Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Adam> On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Russell Coker wrote: >> You don't have sym-links to the root directory? Why not? >> >> Hmm. I think I'll make the next version take a list of kernel >> locations. Adam> kernel-package doesn

Re: LILO 21.6-2

2001-01-05 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Russell Coker wrote: > You don't have sym-links to the root directory? Why not? > > Hmm. I think I'll make the next version take a list of kernel locations. kernel-package doesn't do them anymore. BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK Version: 3.12 GCS d- s: a-- c+++ UL P+ L++

Re: LILO 21.6-2

2001-01-05 Thread Joey Hess
Russell Coker wrote: > You don't have sym-links to the root directory? Why not? Because there is no need? > > Yes. They were submitted to me by a Hungarian. I am already in the process > of fixing grammar and spelling. Good. -- see shy jo

Re: LILO 21.6-2

2001-01-05 Thread Russell Coker
On Saturday 06 January 2001 15:08, Joey Hess wrote: > Russell Coker wrote: > > I have just uploaded LILO 21.6-2 to Woody. I have made it use debconf > > for all the common settings (I can configure lilo.conf for all my > > machines using only debconf). Please test it and let me know of any > > ot

Re: LILO 21.6-2

2001-01-05 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Joey Hess wrote: > This program only reinstall LiLO with the already given options. > You can reconfigure LiLO with the dpkg-reconfigure lilo or you can use > the old configuration tool, which is now named oldliloconfig. > Here we will run lilo, but now for security rea

Re: LILO 21.6-2

2001-01-05 Thread Joey Hess
Russell Coker wrote: > I have just uploaded LILO 21.6-2 to Woody. I have made it use debconf for > all the common settings (I can configure lilo.conf for all my machines using > only debconf). Please test it and let me know of any other settings that > should be added for debconf. > > Also I