Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 02 Feb 2001 17:58:21 -0800 | From | Miles Lane <> | Subject | Re: did 2.4 messed up lilo? |
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Hmm. I just downloaded the lilo 21.6 source and the patch appears to have already been applied. I got 21.6 from:
http://ftp.cnr.it/Linux/system/boot/lilo/lilo-21.6.1.tar.gz
Miles Lane wrote: > > Chris Mason wrote: > > > > On Friday, February 02, 2001 03:36:18 PM -0500 newsreader@mediaone.net > > wrote: > > > > > I'm not sure whether this problem is related > > > to 2.4 kernel. > > > > > > > I suspect it is a reiserfs problem, and that you are using lilo older than > > 21.6. Are you mounting /boot with -o notail? > > > > Regardless, I'm willing to bet upgrading to lilo 21.6 will solve this. It > > calls an ioctl reiserfs provides to unpack small files, and I've seen it > > fix this exact problem on one of my devel boxes (no lilo prompt, append > > lines in lilo.conf ignored). > > I also found this patch for lilo 21.6: > > http://industrial-linux.org/distro/download/lilo-21.6-glibc-2.2-reiserfs.patch > > Perhaps someone familiar with the lilo and reiserfs code could explain > whether or not this patch is really needed. > > Miles > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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