Daniel Baumann writes:
> On 05/24/2010 11:29 AM, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>
>> You may want to try extlinux, it works much like LILO in this respect.
>> It lacks a convenient configuration system, but that of grub-legacy
>> would be easy to adapt, and I actually plan to work on
On 07/06/2010 17:37, Stephen Powell wrote:
But for a kernel install or reconfigure, it is the responsibility of the
kernel maintainer scripts to invoke the bootloader. See also, for example,
linux-image-2.6.26-2-s390.postinst, where zipl is assigned as the bootloader
on line 38. This really
On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 13:39 +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote:
On 07/06/2010 17:37, Stephen Powell wrote:
But for a kernel install or reconfigure, it is the responsibility of the
kernel maintainer scripts to invoke the bootloader. See also, for example,
linux-image-2.6.26-2-s390.postinst, where
On Tue, 08 Jun 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 13:39 +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote:
On 07/06/2010 17:37, Stephen Powell wrote:
But for a kernel install or reconfigure, it is the responsibility of the
kernel maintainer scripts to invoke the bootloader. See also, for
On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 14:00 +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote:
On Tue, 08 Jun 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 13:39 +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote:
On 07/06/2010 17:37, Stephen Powell wrote:
But for a kernel install or reconfigure, it is the responsibility of the
kernel
On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 07:39:58 -0400 (EDT), Vincent Danjean wrote:
On 07/06/2010 17:37, Stephen Powell wrote:
But for a kernel install or reconfigure, it is the responsibility of the
kernel maintainer scripts to invoke the bootloader. See also, for example,
linux-image-2.6.26-2-s390.postinst,
On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 03:22:46 -0400 (EDT), sean finney wrote:
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 01:44:05AM +0400, William Pitcock wrote:
Have fun. When you have a release that actually has merit, it can be
reconsidered for inclusion in Debian.
In the meantime, the original plan continues.
actually,
reassign 505609 initramfs-tools
thanks
Hi Stephen,
thanks for stepping up maintaining lilo in Debian! I hope you'll manage this
well.
On Montag, 7. Juni 2010, Stephen Powell wrote:
Perhaps I can offer a solution here. Since William obviously doesn't wish
to maintain this package any longer,
On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:33:52 -0400 (EDT), Holger Levsen wrote:
Hi Stephen,
thanks for stepping up maintaining lilo in Debian! I hope you'll manage this
well.
Um, thanks; but I don't understand the reassignment of bug number 505609 to
package initramfs-tools. If you read my previous posts
On Wed, 26 May 2010, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote:
You're missing the point. The main selling point to management
is that Linux is free. If they have to buy new backup software
in order to accommodate Linux' backup requirements, that will
kill it on the spot. Whatever boot
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:08:21AM +0100, Chris Carr wrote:
On 25/05/2010 10:00, Harald Braumann wrote:
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 10:39:52PM -0500, William Pitcock wrote:
(4) Users need to test grub2 now.
I've been using grub2 for quite some time now on several different
systems with mixed
On Mon, 31 May 2010 15:56:38 +0200, Josip Rodin j...@entuzijast.net
wrote:
So all this lilo needs to die now, everyone quickly get grub2 talk does
look a fair bit premature. Cynics might say amateurish or worse, YMMV.
grub2 won't magically get better if we just throw more users at it.
I fully
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Marc Haber
mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de wrote:
I fully agree. The grub situation is as with KDE: Old version
abandoned, new version not finished.
Not exactly. I was testing KDE4 since 3.97 and it was quite
interesting and amusing. Not many people like to test
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 04:51:09PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
Right, but also note that there's an open RFH on grub2 #248397
(retitled/refreshed recently, despite the low bug number).
As long as there are tested-and-ready-to-apply[1] patches rotting away
in the BTS without any comments, I
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 04:43:32PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
On Sat, 29 May 2010 14:40:41 -0400 (EDT), Andreas Barth wrote:
Stephen Powell wrote:
On Sat, 22 May 2010 23:39:52 -0400 (EDT), William Pitcock wrote:
After some discussion about lilo on #debian-devel in IRC, it has pretty
On Fri, 28 May 2010 16:44:11 -0400 (EDT), Peter Samuelson wrote:
Stephen Powell wrote:
It *does* recognize lilo and has special logic to patch lilo after
the restore so that the machine will boot.
So can this software be fooled into thinking it is dealing with lilo?
Would it be sufficient
On Sun, 23 May 2010 16:26:48 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli
z...@debian.org wrote:
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 02:08:59PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
This also means that the grub2 maintainers (both Debian and Upstream)
need to work on the regressions that exist in regard to moving from
lilo or grub legacy
On Tue, 25 May 2010 11:42:34 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell
zlinux...@wowway.com wrote:
You're missing the point. The main selling point to management
is that Linux is free. If they have to buy new backup software
in order to accommodate Linux' backup requirements, that will
kill it on the spot.
* Stephen Powell (zlinux...@wowway.com) [100523 21:21]:
On Sat, 22 May 2010 23:39:52 -0400 (EDT), William Pitcock wrote:
After some discussion about lilo on #debian-devel in IRC, it has pretty
much been determined that kernel sizes have crossed the line past where
lilo can reliably
On Sat, 29 May 2010 10:51:10 -0400 (EDT), Marc Haber wrote:
On Tue, 25 May 2010 11:42:34 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote:
You're missing the point. The main selling point to management
is that Linux is free. If they have to buy new backup software
in order to accommodate Linux' backup
On Sat, 29 May 2010 14:40:41 -0400 (EDT), Andreas Barth wrote:
Stephen Powell wrote:
On Sat, 22 May 2010 23:39:52 -0400 (EDT), William Pitcock wrote:
After some discussion about lilo on #debian-devel in IRC, it has pretty
much been determined that kernel sizes have crossed the line past where
On Tue, 25 May 2010 13:12:27 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote:
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
No software is entirely without cost ...
volunteers work on whatever they like ...
your specific requirements may differ from their goals ...
volunteers are rarely concerned with market share ...
Le vendredi 28 mai 2010 à 10:45 -0400, Stephen Powell a écrit :
Unfortunately, logical backups of a Linux machine using the extlinux
boot loader do not work with our backup/restore software. The master boot
record and partition boot sector are restored correctly, but
[Stephen Powell]
It *does* recognize lilo and has special logic to patch lilo after
the restore so that the machine will boot.
So can this software be fooled into thinking it is dealing with lilo?
Would it be sufficient to rename /boot/extlinux/extlinux.sys to
/boot/maps or something?
--
In gmane.linux.debian.devel.general Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote:
But like lilo it stays out of unallocated (and therefore not backed up)
sectors. The boot block of extlinux is installed in the boot sector
of a partition, and the second stage loader occupies a file within the
Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org writes:
Paul Vojta, le Thu 27 May 2010 00:47:14 +, a écrit :
In article enjn8-64s...@gated-at.bofh.it,
Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote:
Sorry, I don't trust in the future of LILO myself. If there's anything
which only LILO can do, I recommend you
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 07:10:37PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 06:13:13PM +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote:
Colin added himself to the Uploaders field when I requested him to do so,
as he's been in charge of Ubuntu's switch to GRUB2 for Ubuntu and after
the
2010/5/26 Joachim Wiedorn ad_deb...@joonet.de:
Harald Braumann ha...@unheit.net wrote on Tue, 25 May 2010:
On simple standard system -- one disk, one kernel in /boot, no fancy
stuff -- it works quite well.
This is enough to use grub2 for new installing of Debian.
On other systems it often
Daniel Baumann dan...@debian.org writes:
as of current git, you can now use EXTLINUX_UPDATE=false in
/etc/default/extlinux to prevent having update-extlinux do anything.
That's the single feature I misseded. Thanks.
Although it would be even better if it was possible to include some
fixed
Bjørn Mork, le Wed 26 May 2010 10:45:49 +0200, a écrit :
Just comparing http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/syslinux/syslinux.git with
http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/trunk/grub/ should IMHO give more
than enough information to choose extlinux over grub2
I don't understand what you mean here.
On Wed, 26 May 2010 00:23:04 -0400 (EDT), Daniel Baumann wrote:
On 05/26/2010 03:36 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
...
That works for now; but if a package upgrade for extlinux is ever
downloaded, I'm afraid that new versions of the hook scripts will
be copied into these directories which are
In article enjn8-64s...@gated-at.bofh.it,
Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote:
Sorry, I don't trust in the future of LILO myself. If there's anything
which only LILO can do, I recommend you start complaining on the
Syslinux and the Grub mailing lists. I suppose it will be heard.
Does either
Paul Vojta, le Thu 27 May 2010 00:47:14 +, a écrit :
In article enjn8-64s...@gated-at.bofh.it,
Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote:
Sorry, I don't trust in the future of LILO myself. If there's anything
which only LILO can do, I recommend you start complaining on the
Syslinux and the
Hi,
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 10:39:52PM -0500, William Pitcock wrote:
(4) Users need to test grub2 now.
I've been using grub2 for quite some time now on several different
systems with mixed success.
On simple standard system -- one disk, one kernel in /boot, no fancy
stuff -- it works quite
On 25/05/2010 10:00, Harald Braumann wrote:
Hi,
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 10:39:52PM -0500, William Pitcock wrote:
(4) Users need to test grub2 now.
I've been using grub2 for quite some time now on several different
systems with mixed success.
[snip]
Because of this, coupled with the many
Hello,
On 05/23/2010 03:44 PM, Julien BLACHE wrote:
Darren Salt li...@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk wrote:
Hi,
Working fine here on i386, whether booting a stock kernel (testing with
2.6.33 from experimental) or a custom kernel. I've not checked a stock kernel
on amd64 for some time now,
Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com writes:
Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside of
the master boot record and outside of a partition ...
You may want to try extlinux, it works much like LILO in this respect.
Well, I tried extlinux last
On Tue, 25 May 2010 07:08:20 -0400 (EDT), Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
William Pitcock neno...@dereferenced.org wrote:
This bug *can* be fixed, but not without a significant rewrite of the
way that lilo's stage2 loader code works. Given that there is no
active upstream and that the Debian
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 09:22:13AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
[snip]
Speaking of documentation, that seems to be its main weakness.
Documentation is sketchy and spread out over a number of different files.
I would have had a hard time configuring it if it weren't for
correct guesses based
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com writes:
Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com writes:
Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside of
the master boot record and outside of a partition ...
You may want to try extlinux, it works much like LILO in
On Mon, 24 May 2010 17:29:54 -0400 (EDT), Peter Easthope wrote:
Stephen Powell wrote:
(3) The need for special backup requirements will be
used by the opponents of Linux at my place of employment
to oppose further deployments of Linux, ...
What about the carrot approach? Find an even
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.comwrote:
On Mon, 24 May 2010 17:29:54 -0400 (EDT), Peter Easthope wrote:
Stephen Powell wrote:
(3) The need for special backup requirements will be
used by the opponents of Linux at my place of employment
to oppose further
On Tue, 25 May 2010 11:51:11 -0400 (EDT), Mark mamar...@gmail.com
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.comwrote:
On Mon, 24 May 2010 17:29:54 -0400 (EDT), Peter Easthope wrote:
Stephen Powell wrote:
(3) The need for special backup requirements will be
used by the
On Tue, 25 May 2010 12:03:17 -0400 (EDT), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
Stephen Powell wrote:
You're missing the point. The main selling point to management
is that Linux is free.
No software is entirely without cost. Free Software is no exception. There
are usually no up-front
From: Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 11:42:34 -0400 (EDT)
The backup people are Windows people, and they'd love an
excuse to complain to management about the backup requirements
of my Linux servers.
Implies that you don't have responsibility for
backing the
Harald Braumann ha...@unheit.net wrote on Tue, 25 May 2010:
On simple standard system -- one disk, one kernel in /boot, no fancy
stuff -- it works quite well.
This is enough to use grub2 for new installing of Debian.
On other systems it often breaks miserably. Updates leave my system
Original Message
From: zlinux...@wowway.com
To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-u...@lists.debian.org,
debian-b...@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Re (2): lilo removal in squeeze (or, please test
grub2)
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 13:00:45 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 25 May 2010 11:51:11
On Tue, 25 May 2010 11:10:38 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Stephen Powell wrote:
... I installed the mbr package ...
The extlinux package itself also contains an mbr.bin, which you can use
(it's strong point is probably EBIOS support).
So it does. Well, I've now installed extlinux'
On 05/26/2010 03:36 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
That works for now; but if a package upgrade for extlinux is ever
downloaded, I'm afraid that new versions of the hook scripts will
be copied into these directories which are marked executable, and
my hand-made configuration file will get wiped
Quoting Stanislav Maslovski (stanislav.maslov...@gmail.com):
Nobody cares if you are opposed to it. Unless you are offering to become
lilo upstream, it's going away.
That is why I love reading d-dev. Some debian developers are so good
at argumentation!
Everybody has time constraints and
On 2010-05-24, Florian Zagler florianzag...@web.de wrote:
Don't drop lilo in squeeze but mark it orphaned. Leave it in Squeeze and
schedule the removal for Squeeze+1.
Orphaned packages in a release are a pain if nobody steps up to fix RC bugs
suddenly popping up in stable.
Kind regards,
Kurt Roeckx k...@roeckx.be writes:
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 01:11:48PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
William Pitcock neno...@dereferenced.org (22/05/2010):
This means that users should *test grub2 extensively* before Squeeze
is released so that any issues can be resolved now.
There should
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com writes:
Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside of
the master boot record [...] This breaks the design of the backup
software that my employer uses. This backup software backs up the
master boot record and all partitions; but
On Mon, 24 May 2010 05:36:32 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Kurt Roeckx k...@roeckx.be wrote:
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 01:11:48PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
William Pitcock neno...@dereferenced.org (22/05/2010):
This means that users should *test grub2 extensively* before Squeeze
is
On moandei 24 Maaie 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote:
yes, keeping lilo in the
archive is a burden for some other people (security team,
I would like to correct the suggestion that the security team would oppose
keeping lilo in squeeze. There is currently no such objection, and in the past
the
On Mon, 24 May 2010 05:29:56 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com writes:
Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside of
the master boot record [...] This breaks the design of the backup
software that my employer uses. This backup
[Please Cc: replies, I'm not subscribed to debian-devel ]
Stephen Powell wrote:
What about Jordi Mallach and Colin Watson? The package page for grub-pc
lists them as maintainers too. Have they disappeared as well? Or are
they no longer maintainers for this package? In which case their
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 06:13:13PM +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote:
Colin added himself to the Uploaders field when I requested him to do so,
as he's been in charge of Ubuntu's switch to GRUB2 for Ubuntu and after
the disappearance of Felix and Robert, he's the Debian person with more
experience to
On Mon, 24 May 2010, Stephen Powell wrote:
To the best of my knowledge, it is the *only* bootloader which supports
setting an initial text video mode *and* does not use any sectors outside
the master boot record and outside of a partition. If I'm wrong about
that, someone please correct me.
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com writes:
On Mon, 24 May 2010 05:36:32 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Kurt Roeckx k...@roeckx.be wrote:
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 01:11:48PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
William Pitcock neno...@dereferenced.org (22/05/2010):
This means that users should
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com writes:
On Mon, 24 May 2010 05:29:56 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com writes:
Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside of
the master boot record [...]
You may want to try extlinux, it works
On Mon, 24 May 2010 13:01:30 -0400 (EDT), Edward Allcutt wrote:
On Mon, 24 May 2010, Stephen Powell wrote:
To the best of my knowledge, lilo is the *only* bootloader which supports
setting an initial text video mode *and* does not use any sectors outside
the master boot record and outside of a
On 05/24/2010 11:29 AM, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
You may want to try extlinux, it works much like LILO in this respect.
It lacks a convenient configuration system, but that of grub-legacy
would be easy to adapt, and I actually plan to work on this.
sometime ago i've added extliux-install and
On Mon, 24 May 2010 13:38:55 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com writes:
On Mon, 24 May 2010 05:29:56 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com writes:
Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside of
the master
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com writes:
On Mon, 24 May 2010 13:38:55 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com writes:
On Mon, 24 May 2010 05:29:56 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com writes:
Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use
Le dimanche 23 mai 2010 à 20:48 -0400, Stephen Powell a écrit :
I do understand why a Debian package maintainer does not wish to become
upstream. And I hope that someone who is both willing and able to do
so steps up to the plate. But withdrawing it from the distribution seems
like overkill
Le lundi 24 mai 2010 à 20:46 +0200, Daniel Baumann a écrit :
On 05/24/2010 11:29 AM, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
You may want to try extlinux, it works much like LILO in this respect.
It lacks a convenient configuration system, but that of grub-legacy
would be easy to adapt, and I actually plan
Daniel Baumann dan...@debian.org writes:
On 05/24/2010 11:29 AM, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
You may want to try extlinux, it works much like LILO in this respect.
It lacks a convenient configuration system, but that of grub-legacy
would be easy to adapt, and I actually plan to work on this.
On 05/24/2010 10:07 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Could this also be eventually added as an alternative to grub2 in the
installer?
i've talked with otavio about this already a year ago, as i'm much in
favour[0] of extlinux over grub2 anyway, but i didn't got arround to
finally push it. if anyone
I demand that Ferenc Wagner may or may not have written...
[snip]
You may want to try extlinux, it works much like LILO in this respect. It
lacks a convenient configuration system, but that of grub-legacy would be
easy to adapt, and I actually plan to work on this.
Given an upload of a 4.00
(Dropping -release, which isn't a discussion list.)
William Pitcock neno...@dereferenced.org (22/05/2010):
Given that there is no active upstream and that the Debian lilo
package carries many patches for bug fixes that are alleviated by
standardizing on grub2, this seems like the best option
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 01:11:48PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
William Pitcock neno...@dereferenced.org (22/05/2010):
This means that users should *test grub2 extensively* before Squeeze
is released so that any issues can be resolved now.
There should also be some folks fixing the
I demand that William Pitcock may or may not have written...
After some discussion about lilo on #debian-devel in IRC, it has pretty
much been determined that kernel sizes have crossed the line past where
lilo can reliably determine the payload size.
Working fine here on i386, whether booting
Darren Salt li...@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk wrote:
Hi,
Working fine here on i386, whether booting a stock kernel (testing with
2.6.33 from experimental) or a custom kernel. I've not checked a stock kernel
on amd64 for some time now, but I've seen no problems with my custom kernels
(which
On Sat, 22 May 2010 22:39:52 -0500, William Pitcock
neno...@dereferenced.org wrote:
This means that users should *test grub2 extensively* before Squeeze is
released so that any issues can be resolved now.
This also means that the grub2 maintainers (both Debian and Upstream)
need to work on the
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 02:08:59PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
This also means that the grub2 maintainers (both Debian and Upstream)
need to work on the regressions that exist in regard to moving from
lilo or grub legacy to grub2. There are too many bug reports in the
BTS which are completely
I demand that Julien BLACHE may or may not have written...
Darren Salt li...@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk wrote:
Working fine here on i386, whether booting a stock kernel (testing with
2.6.33 from experimental) or a custom kernel. I've not checked a stock
kernel on amd64 for some time now, but
Darren Salt li...@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk wrote:
Hi,
Working fine here on i386, whether booting a stock kernel (testing with
2.6.33 from experimental) or a custom kernel. I've not checked a stock
kernel on amd64 for some time now, but I've seen no problems with my
custom kernels (which
On Sat, 22 May 2010 23:39:52 -0400 (EDT), William Pitcock wrote:
After some discussion about lilo on #debian-devel in IRC, it has pretty
much been determined that kernel sizes have crossed the line past where
lilo can reliably determine the payload size.
This bug *can* be fixed, but not
Hi,
- Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote:
(blah blah blah blah)
Nobody cares if you are opposed to it. Unless you are offering to become
lilo upstream, it's going away.
William
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On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:11:30AM +0400, William Pitcock wrote:
Hi,
- Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote:
(blah blah blah blah)
Nobody cares if you are opposed to it. Unless you are offering to become
lilo upstream, it's going away.
That is why I love reading d-dev. Some
On Sun, 23 May 2010 16:11:30 -0400 (EDT), William Pitcock wrote:
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote:
(blah blah blah blah)
Nobody cares if you are opposed to it. Unless you are offering to become
lilo upstream, it's going away.
William
I do understand why a Debian package
On Sun, 23 May 2010, Stephen Powell wrote:
But withdrawing it from the distribution seems like overkill to me,
especially since you want to withdraw it from Squeeze and not
Squeeze+1. Lilo, as it exists today, works just fine for my
purposes.
If the maintainer doesn't wish to maintain it for
On Monday, 24. May 2010, Stephen Powell wrote:
I do understand why a Debian package maintainer does not wish to become
upstream. And I hope that someone who is both willing and able to do
so steps up to the plate. But withdrawing it from the distribution seems
like overkill to me, especially
Hi,
After some discussion about lilo on #debian-devel in IRC, it has pretty
much been determined that kernel sizes have crossed the line past where
lilo can reliably determine the payload size.
This bug *can* be fixed, but not without a significant rewrite of the
way that lilo's stage2 loader
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