Re: 2.5.70: Lilo needs patching?

[Max Valdez <maxvalde@fis.unam.mx>]

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I wish I knew that before ruining my boot sector

But at the end I got to give gentoo a try, so, now i need to go back and
compile 2.5 and try it with that trick

BTW, only woosies have a boot disk, if anybody is willing to make the
comment :-P

Thanks anyway for that advice 
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 22:43, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Unai Garro Arrazola <Unai.Garro@ee.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Since version 2.5.69 (now with 2.5.70-mm6), I'm having trouble using lilo. 
> > Every time I try to change the lilo boot, the boot menu is either not 
> > changed, or it's corrupted. It looks like if Lilo doesn't manage to 
> > completely write the boot sector.
> > 
> > I've been looking around, but I haven't found any information about this. Has 
> > anything changed in the latest versions? Are there any patches that I need to 
> > apply to lilo to make it work now? 
> > 
> 
> It's a bug.  Seems that the ramdisk driver has somehow managed to
> compromise the livelock avoidance logic in the sync() system call.
> 
> For now you can
> 
> a) stop using the ramdisk driver (don't mount it) or
> 
> b) manually run `blockdev --flushbufs /dev/hdXX' against the boot
>    partition before rebooting.
> 
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