Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 3 Feb 2001 06:27:32 -0500 | From | newsreader@mediaone ... | Subject | Re: did 2.4 messed up lilo? |
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Just to let everyone knows that 21.6 also fix the problem on ibm box. I can now mount cdr drive. Thank you.
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 12:14:09AM -0500, newsreader@mediaone.net wrote: > > I've now installed 21.6 downloaded from metlab > and all seems to be ok now... well at > least the dell box.. compaq boot sector may > have been blown off for some reason..it won't > boot at all athough this time it's a different > way of being stuck like LI instead of LILO. > I will try ibm box in the morning when the traffic > is light. > > > On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 05:58:21PM -0800, Miles Lane wrote: > > 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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