🚀 go-pugleaf

Ok heres what ive found.

Lilo is looking for AA55h at byte 510 of the boot sector of the
partition. On my system it was AA53H.

I was sure that the partition was right so I did something quite dirty!
I removed the check from LILO, recompiled, and ran it. It all worked ok.
It fixed the boot sector, and I can now use a proper unmodified LILO. I
dont know how the boot signature became wrong, and Im not sugesting this
solution would work for someone else, but is certainly worked for me.

The chenge I found best was to put a change in common.c:

volatile void die(char *fmt,...)
{
    va_list ap;
return; /* Hacked. Delete when done! */
    fflush(stdout);
    va_start(ap,fmt);
    vfprintf(stderr,fmt,ap);
    va_end(ap);
    fputc('\n',stderr);
    exit(1);
}

If anyone else trys this technique I would stress that it should be
viewd as a quick & dirty solution to the problem I had. It may not fix
yours, and it may well make things worse.

Ive deleted my hacked version of LILO now, so I wont accidently run a
version with no sanity checks in it.

Cheers.


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