Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (956 mails)

[Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 04:52:31PM +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
> Arpadffy Zoltan wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have some troubles using lilo with the kernel
> > kernel-default-3.1.rc7-3.1 that comes with 12.1 beta1.
> >
> > I run into the error:
> >
> > Fatal: Setup length exceeds 31 maximum; kernel setup will overwrite
> > boot loader.
> >
> > When I increase verbose level to maximum I got information
> > that it has 33 sectors, so is bigger then maximum.
> >
> > After some investigation I have found that other Linux distributions
> > have run into this issue and the LILO development teem already
> > corrected in the latest release:
> > [snip]
> > I would kindly ask the responsible maintainer to include the latest
> > lilo release into the upcoming opensuse releases.
>
> I am not the maintainer, but I've been trying to get the new lilo to
> build since July - it doesn't build for SLES_11_SP1 and openSUSE 11.3,
> which is basically where I am stuck.  I received a couple of hints on
> the packaging list, but either I didn't follow them correctly or they
> didn't work. 
>
> http://lists.opensuse.org/archive/opensuse-packaging/2011-09/msg00142.html

It only needs to build for Factory for a factory inclusion btw.

Ciao, Marcus
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