Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 02 Feb 2001 17:50:09 -0800 | From | Miles Lane <> | Subject | Re: did 2.4 messed up lilo? |
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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.
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