Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: 2.5.70: Lilo needs patching? | From | Max Valdez <> | Date | 12 Jun 2003 18:35:15 +0000 |
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I wish I knew that before ruining my boot sector
But at the end I got to give gentoo a try, so, now i need to go back and compile 2.5 and try it with that trick
BTW, only woosies have a boot disk, if anybody is willing to make the comment :-P
Thanks anyway for that advice On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 22:43, Andrew Morton wrote: > Unai Garro Arrazola <Unai.Garro@ee.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > > > > Since version 2.5.69 (now with 2.5.70-mm6), I'm having trouble using lilo. > > Every time I try to change the lilo boot, the boot menu is either not > > changed, or it's corrupted. It looks like if Lilo doesn't manage to > > completely write the boot sector. > > > > I've been looking around, but I haven't found any information about this. Has > > anything changed in the latest versions? Are there any patches that I need to > > apply to lilo to make it work now? > > > > It's a bug. Seems that the ramdisk driver has somehow managed to > compromise the livelock avoidance logic in the sync() system call. > > For now you can > > a) stop using the ramdisk driver (don't mount it) or > > b) manually run `blockdev --flushbufs /dev/hdXX' against the boot > partition before rebooting. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- uname -a: Linux garaged.fis.unam.mx 2.4.21-pre4-ac4 #5 SMP Thu Feb 13 10:26:24 CST 2003 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GS/ d-s:a-28C++ILHA+++P+L++>+++E---W++N*o--K-w++++O-M--V--PS+PEY--PGP++t5XRtv++b++DI--D-G++e++h-r+y** ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ gpg-key: http://garaged.homeip.net/gpg-key.txt [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | ![\](/images/icornerr.gif) |