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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Strange behaviour with LILO on new install on old laptop
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 01:09:25AM -0400, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote
> >
> > I don't let theebuild muck with lilo.conf,I edit it myself, so the root
> > is no problem -- its an initrd anyway.
>
> I don't understand. The ebuild doesn't look at lilo.conf, rather, it
> tries to guess the root partition, and fails miserably from the chroot.
>
> --
> Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
I don't let the ebuild build my lilo.conf at all, I build it myself, it
never runs dolilo.
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