[3225] in Release_7.7_team
Re: possible bug in ALS SMP 9.0.25 update script?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stefan Stasik)
Tue Apr 2 18:32:18 2002
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 18:32:15 -0500 (EST)
From: Stefan Stasik <stasik@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
cc: <release-team@mit.edu>, <wccf-dist@bcs.MIT.EDU>
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Hi Greg:
Thanks for the follow-up on this bug. I assume it was fixed in the
emergency 9.0.26 update that was released last night? Actually, the update
last night didnt do a kernel update, so it wouldn't show up there.
About switching to GRUB in 9.1, I glad to know you will switch. I am
invested quite a bit in LILO at this point, with quite a few
customizations we have done to some of our ALS systems with LILO to
support things like dual-boot and the like. I would need to read up and experiment with
GRUB to allow us to switch over to this new way of booting the ALS boxes.
I'll keep this in mind as 9.1's release approaches.
Thanks,
- Stefan Stasik
Stefan Stasik - stasik@mit.edu - (617) 253-2842 - E25-147G
System Manager - MIT Whitaker College Computing Facility
On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Greg Hudson wrote:
> Hi, sorry about this bug. We actually fixed it in the sources a while
> ago, and due to a mistake on my part, it wasn't propagated into the
> 9.0 release a few patches ago.
>
> If there is another 9.0 patch release, then it will include the fix.
> If that patch release includes a kernel update, you will get bitten by
> the bug one more time since your system's existing rpmupdate program
> is used to run the update. So, watch for it.
>
> In the 9.1 release, I think we will switch everyone over to using
> grub, and rpmupdate can get out of the business of frobbing the boot
> loader (/sbin/new-kernel-pkg, run by the kernel %post script, should
> take care of everything).
>
