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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Strange behaviour with LILO on new install on old
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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