OOPS: Small correction below.
(And sorry about that !!) Very best regards; Bob Finch > Hey gang; > > Yes I already know this might belong on the bug tracker. Then again it > should also be promulgated more widely. A recent experience with the > bugtracker also dissuades me from posting there. So I will post it here. > If this info is on the forums; well I do not post there as a rule, and > certainly have not checked there (yet). > > Two things came up during my recent upgrade on my desktop machine at > work. I started the upgrade last Thursday and completed it yesterday > morning. > > 1 - From lilo.conf (which most likely will be named > /etc/lilo.conf.pacnew): > > image=/boot/vmlinuz > label=arch > root=/dev/hda3 > read-only > > 2 - From PKGBUILD for kernel26: > > cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage $startdir/pkg/boot/vmlinuz26 > > > i.e. lilo (...$ /sbin/lilo) will not successfully run with the two > different names for the image file, or worse yet; it will successfully > run with some other image that might happen to reside at > /boot/vmlinuz26. this should read /boot/vmlinuz > > Yes, I am aware that on a previous install that is now upgraded to the > new kernel and therefore the new udev system will require the user to > edit his fstab, and lilo conf. at the very least. And he will know to do > so, if he carefully reads the console output generated during the > upgrade from kernel26.install. Nonetheless, a new install (for instance > from an ftp style install) will potentially have problems with this. > > While on the subject of new installs and to whomever is in charge of > said install machinations; I filed a bug report in the last month or two > at the bugtracker. I have not received any notification that it has been > attended to *and* repaired. It was a relatively bad bug in that file(s) > were NOT being installed on an ftp install. Someone who cares might want > to go look this one up. > > > Anyways, thanks everyone for the attention and your time. > > > Very best regards; > > > Bob Finch > > > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
