Re: [Dragora-bug] Upgrading kernel, should it run lilo?

[Mateus Pinto Rodrigues]

On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 10:57:09 -0300
Nicolás Dato <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello everybody,
> I upgraded the kernel with the pkg on the folder upgardes/ from the
> mirrors, the old kernel was 3.2.15 and the upgrade was to 3.2.60.
> After upgrading i rebooted and the system didn't boot, wondering what
> happened, i remembered i didn't executed lilo and i didn't see nothing
> about lilo while upgrading.
> So, i booted with a dragora usb, downgraded to the original 3.2.15
> packaged, rebooted, it booted, upgraded with 3.2.60 and run lilo,
> rebooted, and it booted ok with 3.2.60
> 
> in my case i installed lilo instead of grub, and i don't remember much
> about grub, but this would apply equally to grub

This is not the case for grub.
> 
> so, should the kernel-gen-*.tlz packages run lilo, or ask to run lilo,
> or warn about running lilo?
> 
> My suggestion would be to ask to run lilo and if no, tell the user to
> run lilo
> 

That would be good. Now lilo is old and if you try to use a bigger
kernel (more modules) it won't even boot at all.



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