Later:
At 06:39 AM Monday 11/27/2006, you wrote:
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Package: lilo
Version: 1:22.6.1-7.1
Severity: normal
Current LILO version is 22.7.3. I cannot reproduce the problem with
this version or with [unreleased] 22.7.4-alpha2, the upcoming minor release.
To make running lilo, or booting, work fine without bothering about
what flash cards I have plugged into USB today, I was told to use
disk=/dev/sda inaccessible
disk=/dev/sdb inaccessible
disk=/dev/sdc inaccessible
disk=/dev/sdd inaccessible
disk=/dev/sde inaccessible
disk=/dev/sdf inaccessible
which worked fine until nowadays, where I get
Fatal: stat /dev/sde: No such file or directory
meaning one now has to tailor one's lilo.conf to the exact number of
those irrelevant flash cards plugged in at the moment!
Is it possible to get a copy of /proc/partitions from the system that
exhibits this problem? A check with 22.7.3 LILO would also be helpful.
attached at boot. Why doesn't lilo have a command
"keep nose out of usb at boot totally" ?
USB devices are not recognized. The %#^&% USB drivers make the
devices appear as SCSI devices. SCSI disks are often bootable, often
have BIOS device codes, and must receive unique Volume ID's. The
overlap of SCSI & USB devices is the problem -- a kernel driver
design flaw, IMHO. Why not /dev/usba, /dev/usbb, &c. using a major
device number other than 8 (SCSI).
Does Debian modify the LILO release at all? Some releases of LILO
with 'device.c' modified have had problems introduced.
I agree that what is described above is a major annoyance. But I
cannot reproduce the problem with a USB flash card reader on / off
the system. I am using the 2.6.18 kernel from RedHat (Fedora Core
6), gcc 4.1, and glibc 2.4. The kernel probably has the greatest
effect on LILO, as 2.6 is still in great flux.
Any more light you can shed on this annoyance, to the end of my being
able to reproduce the problem, would be of great help.
--John
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