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From: "Mike Owen" <kyphros@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge lilo fails
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 14:58:17 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8f5ca2210603081458u4e52735frc135276c15bcc707@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200603070824.08900.lang.erwin@gmx.at>

On 3/6/06, Erwin Lang <lang.erwin@gmx.at> wrote:
> hi everyone!
>
> i tried to emerge lilo (`emerge -bva lilo') - but it aborts with the following
> error-message:
>
> open_wr:   /dev/loop5 (symlink to /dev/loop/5)
> open_wr:   /dev/loop5 (symlink to /dev/loop/5)
>

In the past, emerging LILO would choke while trying to mount/unmount
your /boot partition. It looks like it's doing the same with the loop
devices. Try unmounting all your loop devices, and then remerging
LILO.

HTH,
Mike

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      reply	other threads:[~2006-03-08 23:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-07  7:24 [gentoo-user] emerge lilo fails Erwin Lang
2006-03-08 22:58 ` Mike Owen [this message]

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