On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 03:11:08PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote:
> I'm sure I'm not the only one that has lilo's postinst intrude on
> boot-floppies' screen?
nope your not.
> Has this been reported as a bug against lilo?
yes bug#110258
> Is this going to be fixed?
apparently not, i proposed a couple completly viable and trivially
implemented solutions to this, but the bug is old and ignored.
> It looks like the output should go to tty4, I
> guess the redirects aren't working right then? I apologize for not
> having read or searched the archives for this before posting. Feel free
> to ignore. ;)
no lilo is intentionally redirecting its output to /dev/tty.
the solution is a) don't even echo that crap at all, put it in
README.Debian where it belongs, or b) check for $Noninterative and
don't echo anything if its set.
its a problem in the lilo package, not boot-floppies, so we are at the
mercy of the maintainer who doesn't seem to care about this.
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