Am 15.07.2010 21:46, schrieb Dale Blount:

On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 15:29 -0400, Eric Bélanger wrote:

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Hi,

Roman has flagged my lilo packages. Lilo developpement is now active and lilo 23.0 was released. Unfortunately, my only system using lilo is no longer working. Is there anyone else using lilo? Ideally, it would be a dev who would take over the package or, at least, a user willing to work with me in testing the new packgae before it hits the testing repo.

No lilo here, the fact that it needs to hardcode the locations of kernel and initrd is plain braindead, and defies the concept of package management.

I'm forced to use it on a single HP server where grub just flat out refuses to work. I could be convinced to help with testing (as long as it's just verifying that it's working and not several reboots).

You are not forced to do anything. Syslinux is way more flexible and extensible than grub or lilo, actively developped (by someone who knows what he is doing and is always willing to fix bugs like yours) and feature-rich. # pacman -S syslinux # mkdir -p /boot/syslinux/ # extlinux --install /boot/syslinux/ # cat /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin > /dev/sda Then mark the partition with /boot on it as active in the partition table and create an appropriate /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg. The only downside: only ext2/3/4 and btrfs are supported for /boot. I don't have grub or lilo anywhere anymore.

On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 00:15 +0000, Eric Bélanger wrote:

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Dale Blount wrote:

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On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 15:29 -0400, Eric Bélanger wrote:

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Hi,

Roman has flagged my lilo packages. Lilo developpement is now active and lilo 23.0 was released. Unfortunately, my only system using lilo is no longer working. Is there anyone else using lilo? Ideally, it would be a dev who would take over the package or, at least, a user willing to work with me in testing the new packgae before it hits the testing repo.

I'm forced to use it on a single HP server where grub just flat out refuses to work. I could be convinced to help with testing (as long as it's just verifying that it's working and not several reboots).

Dale

If I understodd correctly, you can only reboot that server once. Is that correct? I'll wait to see if I can't get more testers. I'll forward this thread on arch-general ML.

Yes, I'd like to only reboot once. As long as you think the package should be working, I'll give it a shot. Dale