Ubuntu
lilo package

  1. Bug #107249
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 107249

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Dwayne Nelson (edn2) wrote :

Problem solved (again)

I used the liveCD from Gutsy to boot, and re-assembled the array using info from this page:

  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=408461

mounted the volume and then ran lilo following some information I found here:

  http://www.syrlug.org/contrib/boot-loaders.html#LILO

and finally rebooted into Feisty - where the failed kernel update repeated itself. Fortunately, I could still work on the problem because the system hadn't been rebooted.

This time, I solved the problem by removing a section of my lilo.conf file corresponding to a windows boot. I am not sure why the windows section was there (perhaps as a courtesy?) because I didn't add it (when I want to boot from windows, I just select the windows boot device from BIOS). In fact, I have never touched the lilo.conf file before today.

In any case, I think the lilo configuration was no longer valid because the order of the drives (as reported by BIOS?) was changed between kernel updates - possibly relating to an issue documented in bug #8497.

Anyway, good news today. So until next time - hope NOT to see you so soon.