Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 11:52:34 +0400
From: gremlin@...mlin.ru
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: Owl-20050913

On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 02:29:50PM +0400, Solar Designer wrote:

 > > I've just downloaded new ISO from the ftp1.msk.openwall.com and tried to
 > > boot off it. With no luck.
 > > Previous ISO prompts me for boot CD location (ide-primary-master,
 > > ide-primary-slave etc) while newer one just starts booting
 > > ide-secondary-master.
 > > I didn't investigate this issue - just switched my dvd-rom to the
 > > secondary controller and made it to be a master. Viola! I can boot Owl.

 > Thank you for the problem report.
 > I've just tried on two different computers and I can't reproduce this.
 > The LILO menu is displayed properly.
 > Can you still reproduce this?  Will LILO prompt appear if you hold Shift
 > during bootup?
 > Can anyone else reproduce this problem?

Yes. It seems like boot-text.b was used instead of boot-menu.b - that really
confused even me :-)

 > We've changed LILO version between these two ISO snapshots.  Perhaps the
 > new version is behaving differently in some cases (a bug?)

I fixed that by rebuilding the ISO - possibly, we should do the same with
official image.


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