[lug] LILO and LIes

[rm at mamma.varadinet.de]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 09:15:24PM -0700, John Starkey wrote:
> > Strange, indeed! Hmm, next shot: test whether you are booting
> > from the partition you have lilo installed in. If you change
> > the message in the message file and rerun lilo (yet one more
> > time) you should see these changes. How is the disk/partition
> > setup on this box?
> 
> I've never written to 'message' until now.If it should show up between
> lilo and boot prompts on reboot this is the problem. Nothing came up. (and
> I was overly sarcastic with myself in the message :} )

Hmm, just looking at the size of the message file there seem to
be something in it and that should show up during booting.