Bug 25004

Summary: if one installs the new kernel on an old system, the label is too long for lilo
Product: Branch p5 Reporter: Ivan Zakharyaschev <imz>
Component: cross-componentAssignee: Nobody's working on this, feel free to take it <nobody>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: QA p5 <qa-p5>
Severity: minor    
Priority: P3 CC: grenka
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: all   
OS: Linux   
Bug Depends on: 22616    
Bug Blocks:    

Description Ivan Zakharyaschev 2011-02-01 00:18:20 MSK 
kernel-image-std-def-2.6.32-alt20.M50P.1
lilo-22.7.3-alt5
bootloader-utils-0.4.8-alt2

I tried to install the new kernel from p5 on an older system (with
lilo-22.7.3-alt5 and bootloader-utils-0.4.8-alt2), and this failed
because the label was too long for lilo:

# lilo -v
< SKIPPED >
Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-std-def-alt20.M50P.1
Mapping RAM disk /boot/initrd-2.6.32-std-def-alt20.M50P.1.img
Fatal: Image name, label, or alias is too long: '2632-std-def-20M50P1'
# 

Perhaps, the new kernel should conflict with these utils to enable the
upgrade of kernel.

(lilo-22.7.3-alt6.M51.1 was fixed to handle this after #22616 .)
Comment 1 Grigory Ustinov 2018-11-29 20:55:17 MSK 
Данный бранч более не поддерживается. Если проблема всё ещё актуальна в p8 или Sisyphus, пожалуйста, перевесьте на актуальный бранч. Закрываю баг, как End of Life.