Whenever I made the same LILO upgrade, I found that I had to forcibly remove
the old LILO first (very carefully) or it would refuse to install itself;
though I got a error message indicating failure. Odd your seeing no output
at all! Have you tried "lilo -v"?
Rich B
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jieming Wang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Richard Bollinger'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "linux raid mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 9:17 AM
Subject: RE: strange error with lilo: "open /tmp/dev.0: No such device"?
> Hi Rich,
>
> 1) The version of lilo was 0.21-15 (came with Redhat 6.2);
> 2) /etc/lilo.conf
> boot=/dev/md0
> default=linux
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
> label=linux
> root=/dev/md0
> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0_raid.img
> read-only
> image=/root/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
> label=linux_ide
> root=/dev/hda1
> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0.img
> read-only
> 3) Output from /proc/mounts:
> /dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0
> /proc /proc proc rw 0 0
> automount(pid371) /misc autofs rw 0 0
> none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
> /dev/md2 /users ext2 rw 0 0
> /dev/md4 /var ext2 rw 0 0
>
> Also, I just downloaded the newer version of lilo, lilo-21.4.3.tar.gz
> (http://www.elliott-turbo.com/lilo/). After compiling/getting installed,
> lilo didn't complain anymore, but too quiet - it didn't generate any
output
> when I run lilo (with or without options). I am not sure if I have to
> remove the older version before installing the new one.
>
> JW
