update-lilo creates labels with spaces

[Matthias Urlichs]

update-lilo creates labels with spaces in them. The problem with that is that
"lilo -R name" refuses to work with those.

The problem with that is that some mainboards have non-working USB legacy
support, so there's no way to find out whether a new kernel boots correctly
without risking an unbootable system.

@kiste ~ $ sudo lilo
Added Linux 2.6.10-0*
Added Linux 2.6.11-1
Added Memory Test

@kiste ~ $ sudo lilo -R "Linux 2.6.11-1"
Fatal: No image "Linux" is defined

Escaping that space does not work either (tried backslash and singe-quote).

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Isn't the problem rather that lilo -R fails to work with spaces with labels?
(assuming they work in other contexts)

[Matthias Urlichs (smurf)]

The problem is that lilo -R (and lilo's command line prompt) wants a kernel name
and optional arguments.
Neither interface accepts space quoting AFAIK (I can't reboot the one box which
uses lilo right now...).
Fixing that seems to be rather non-trivial.
Thus, replacing these spaces with underlines seems like a good-enough solution.

[Manuel López-Ibáñez (manuellopezibanez)]

Please, could you test the latest release 22.6.1-7ubuntu2 (Dapper) or even 22.6.1-6.2ubuntu1 in Breezy ?

[Rocco Stanzione (trappist)]

Closing due to inactivity. Please reopen if this is still an issue.

[Matthias Urlichs (smurf)]

Sorry about the missing answer. Works now, thanks.