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Re: lilo+lvm2 isn't working at all



On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 13:53 +0100, David Garabana Barro wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm having trouble with lilo in all sarge machines with lvm I own. Since (I 
> think, but I'm not sure) libdevmapper upgrade, lilo isn't working at all. 
> Every time I try to execute lilo, I got:
> 
> # lilo
> Warning: COMPACT may conflict with LBA32 on some systems
> device-mapper ioctl cmd 12 failed: No such device or address
> Fatal: device-mapper: dm_task_run(DM_DEVICE_TABLE) failed
> 
> I've tried to upgrade to unstable lilo, but the problem persists.
> 
> I think is a *grave* bug, but I don't know where is the problem, lilo, lvm2, 
> libdevmapper...
> 
> I have root in lvm. Kernel 2.6.8-2-k7, 


I've read before that root in lvm* is "problematic".


> Should I open a bug against lilo? libdevmapper?
> 
> Here the relevant parts of my lilo.conf:
> 
> 
> boot=/dev/hda
> root=/dev/mapper/vg_sistema-raiz
> 
> 
> compact
> 
> image=/vmlinuz
>         label=Linux-2.6.8
>         read-only
>         vga=0x31A
> #       restricted
> #       alias=1
> 
>         initrd=/initrd.img
> 
> image=/vmlinuz.old
>         label=LinuxOLD
>         read-only
>         optional
> #       restricted
> #       alias=2
> 
>         initrd=/initrd.img.old
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> David Garabana Barro
> 
> 

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