2024-07-01-0433Z


For years I've had the problem of upgrading Debian systems using a Windows boot manager, with LILO on the individual Linux partitions; forgetting to copy the partition boot sector to the Windows root. Finally, today, during an upgrade I happened to notice /etc/kernel/postinst.d, and copied my script to zzz-lilo.postinst, placing it dead last after LILO runs. Hopefully that will solve the problem once and for all.

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