Bug 115796

Summary:	lilo not called during kernel.rpm update
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Olaf Hering <ohering>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Olaf Dabrunz <odabrunz>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Critical
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 4
Target Milestone:	SUSE Linux 10.1
Hardware:	PowerPC
OS:	Linux
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Attachments:	/tmp/LOADER_TYPE.patch

Description Olaf Hering 2005-09-08 07:14:51 UTC

/etc/sysconfig/bootloader:LOADER_TYPE is now 'ppc' instead of 'lilo'

/sbin/lilo is not called anymore. update the kernel postinstall scripts to deal
with this change.

Comment 1 Andreas Gruenbacher 2005-09-09 13:59:31 UTC

Since I don't know what the rationale for this change is, I won't implement 
this change.

Comment 2 Matthias Fruehauf 2005-09-09 15:28:06 UTC

Hmmm, why not at least ask before closing directly? Olaf, could you please 
provide the requested info?

Comment 3 Olaf Hering 2005-09-19 09:10:44 UTC

Created attachment 50278 [details]
/tmp/LOADER_TYPE.patch

Comment 4 Andreas Gruenbacher 2005-09-19 09:52:33 UTC

Why does LOADER_TYPE have to be "ppc" instead of "lilo" on ppc? Sounds broken 
to me.

Comment 5 Andreas Gruenbacher 2005-10-17 11:28:38 UTC

Matthias, this bug hasn't been updated in a month now. Please assign it to the appropriate person in your team. Thanks.

Comment 6 Joachim Plack 2006-01-25 13:52:11 UTC

well  LOADER_TYPE is 'ppc' to distinguish from lilo on i386 which is a completely different thing. As the bootloader stuff has been almost completely rewritten, this has
been cleaned up.

There a bugzilla ans an appropriate patch - dont see a need for discussion.
hare could you please apply to mkinitrd package?

Comment 7 Hannes Reinecke 2006-01-25 13:56:45 UTC

Already done.
Can I close this then?

Comment 8 Olaf Hering 2006-02-01 14:24:56 UTC

of course its not fixed!

root is on extended now, which forces FAT, which makes kernelupdate painful because one has to run lilo manually.

argh.

Comment 9 Olaf Hering 2006-02-02 16:11:20 UTC

*** Bug 145428 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10 Hannes Reinecke 2006-02-03 12:30:45 UTC

looks more like a bootloader issue now ,,,

Comment 11 Stefan Fent 2006-02-28 13:35:53 UTC

Is this still valid?
reinitializing of the bootloader is done by perl-bootloader since quite a while.

Comment 12 Olaf Hering 2006-03-01 12:47:54 UTC

this appears to be fixed.