On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Horms wrote: > > was to reboot immediatly. I think it might be a good idea to at least add > > a clear warning that people still using lilo should run lilo before > > rebooting, because the upgrade leaves the machine in an unbootable state > > for them. > > That sounds very reasonable to me. Would you like to redraft the message?
Sadly enough, my native language is not english, so I am not sure this is a good idea. But anyway, it just needs an added line like: "** WARNING: if your bootloader is lilo, don't forget to run 'lilo' once the installation is complete, otherwise you may not be able to reboot" (that is for an upgrade or a removal. For a new installation, it should be "otherwise you will still be booting your old kernel") I don't know if there is a way to detect whether lilo is the bootloader (never looked into it), but in this case a dialog/readline interface might ask the question whether you want to run lilo now, with the same warning. Thank you for taking my suggestion into account, -- Marc Glisse
