On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:25:45 -0400 (EDT), Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 09:43 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
do_bootloader = yes
in /etc/kernel-img.conf means run the historic boot loader for this
platform.
For the i386 platform (and amd64) the historic boot loader is lilo.
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:33:58PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
[...]
I can maybe accept your proposal for Squeeze. But for Lenny, I believe
that the maintainer scripts should be changed back they way they
were. In other words,
my $loader= lilo; # lilo, silo, quik, palo,
On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 09:43 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
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.
I wrote:
This code and the file /etc/kernel-img.conf are vestiges of
kernel-package which are gradually being removed from the official
kernel packages. Therefore I don't think we should reinstate this idea
of the default loader but we should change the code so that it doesn't
silently fail
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 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 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
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* Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com [Mon Jun 07, 2010 at 11:37:57AM -0400]:
On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:33:52 -0400 (EDT), Holger Levsen wrote:
thanks for stepping up maintaining lilo in Debian! I hope you'll manage
this
well.
Um, thanks; but I
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