Re: lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 19:51:12 -0400 (EDT)
Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

# Kernel image management overrides
# See kernel-img.conf(5) for details
do_symlinks = no
relative_links = yes
do_bootloader = no
do_bootfloppy = no
do_initrd = yes
link_in_boot = yes
postinst_hook = lilo-update
postrm_hook = lilo-update

You need to remove those last two lines, the ones that have
"lilo-update" in them. At one time I recommended this for squeeze
users that use only stock kernels, but I don't anymore. Besides,
either you didn't write a corresponding lilo-update script or
it got deleted somehow. Either way, you need to get rid of those
two lines in /etc/kernel-img.conf.


done. that explains the errors. that's the problem with this stuff is
unwinding the call stack.

Is there a magic option to pass apt-get or dpkg which will produce more
verbose output ?

Didn't see anything obvious in the manpage except for the "quiet"
parameter.


I haven't gone through the rest of the changes yet. Working on
that right now.

Also, in /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume, the file should reference
the swap partition, not the root partition, either directly or via a
UUID. Older versions of the Debian installer contained a version of
mkswap that did not assign a UUID. Also, if you install another
operating system in another partition, such as Ubuntu, it may
reformat the swap partition, which will change its UUID. You can
either use

RESUME=/dev/sda4

or

RESUME=UUID=558d7790-5914-494d-938f-3387296eed45



I'm not use if it makes a difference, but that file was referencing the
uuid, so I changed it to point at /dev/sda, simply to be consistent
with my fstab and lilo.conf.

my guess is that it will break if I put another disk drive in, right ?

Brian


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