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diff --git a/source/a/lilo/lilo.allow.colons.in.by-id.diff b/source/a/lilo/lilo.allow.colons.in.by-id.diff new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1bb0d990 --- /dev/null +++ b/source/a/lilo/lilo.allow.colons.in.by-id.diff @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +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)); |