Re: 2.5.67-ac2 and lilo

[Andries Brouwer]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 02:13:56PM -0700, Christian Staudenmayer wrote:

> Hey Andries,
> 
> before taking your message into account, i think you misunderstood my
> question:
> 
> > Hmm. You did not forget to rerun LILO or so?
> 
> the error occurs when _running_ lilo, i.e. after typing "lilo" at the prompt.

Yes, I misunderstood. Interesting that the running of an ordinary utility
depends on the kernel in this way.

I cry when I read the source.

    if ((size = read(l_fd,buff,sizeof(buff)+1)) < 0)
        die("read %s: %s",loader,strerror(errno));
    if (size > sizeof(buff))
        die("Chain loader %s is too big",loader);

Precisely what LILO does can be followed better by giving one or more -v
options.

The question remains: if you replace (in the kernel) the -ac2 msdos.c
by the vanilla msdos.c, does that improve things?

By the way, LILO has been a beautiful boot loader, but I think
it is slowly dying.

Andries