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From alex14641 on LQ:
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http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/requests-for-current-20151216-a-4175561577/page142.html#post5686598
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On my system, the Sandisk Cruzer USB Stick has file names in /dev/disk/by-id/, that contain
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colons: this causes lilo to fail when using one of these files as a boot disk. This patch
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replaces the failure with a warning.
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--- ./src/geometry.c.orig 2015-11-21 17:50:18.000000000 -0600
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+++ ./src/geometry.c 2017-03-23 15:30:53.925990587 -0500
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@@ -1357,16 +1357,12 @@
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int geo_open(GEOMETRY *geo,const char *name,int flags)
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{
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- char *here;
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- int user_dev,block_size;
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+ int user_dev = -1,block_size;
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struct stat st;
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- if ((here = strrchr(name,':')) == NULL) user_dev = -1;
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- else {
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- *here++ = 0;
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- warn("%s:BIOS syntax is no longer supported.\n Please use a "
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- "DISK section.", name);
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- user_dev = to_number(here);
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+ if (strrchr(name,':') != NULL) {
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+ warn("%s:BIOS syntax is no longer supported: "
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+ "Treating as a device file.", name);
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}
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if ((geo->fd = open(name,flags)) < 0)
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die("open %s: %s",name,strerror(errno));
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