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