John Hearns wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 14:23 -0500, Troy Dawson wrote:
> 
>>Hi John,
>>This is a known bug.
>>It has been an extreme pain to track down because it has always been 
>>intermittent.  It seems to affect certain machine's, meaning if it 
>>happens to your machine once, somewhere in the future, 
> 
> 
> I have seen similar behaviour with a certain brand of machine,
> using the Upstream Vendor's release.
> 
> The fix in our case was to download and compile up Lilo as an RPM.
> Include this in your install media (NFS share).
> Then at the end of the install process, in the post-install script
> rpm install lilo, create a good /etc/lilo.conf
> and run lilo.
> 
> 
> You won't find an 'official' Lilo anywhere for the Upstream Vendor's
> release. Well worth rolling your own if you come across this problem.
> Lilo almost always works.

Well ... it's not an option during the install, but it's in the release

yum install lilo

save you from having to track it down and build it.

Troy
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