Hello,
At fist: I don't read list 'debian-user'. I am the new developer of lilo.
See: http://alioth.debian.org/projects/lilo/
and: http://lilo.alioth.debian.org/
> There has been a lot of talk about lilo and squeeze on the list lately,
> but I don't really want to get into that argument. I have been using lilo
> for a dozen years, since I started using linux. I am comfortable with
> lilo.conf. I have never bothered to figure out grub's menu.lst and I
> certainly don't understand grub2's grub.cfg.
>
> I installed Eeebuntu on my eeepc when I got it. It was using grub. I
> have since installed Squeeze, since I am happier with pure Debian. That
> install uses grub2. I would like to continue using lilo.
This is the same for me.
> Now, lilo is still avaiilable in Squeeze, so I installed it and ran
> liloconfig. This resulted in an error saying that the root device might
> be a raid, or some other configuration that liloconfig could not handle,
I see: liloconfig is to old for Squeeze. Thanks for this hint.
This script needs some work.
> and that I should write my own lilo,conf. OK. I can do that. Having
> done so, however, and then running lilo, I get the following error:
>
> # lilo
> Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed
> Fatal: raid_setup: stat("UUID=5019cd9d-5d2e-4d7c-a6f4-0eccb5144c77")
At first: set 'lba32' at the beginning of the lilo.conf.
> configuration. My lilo.conf is as follows:
Please set this lines as following:
#### use old device names, i. e.
#### (note: inside lilo works interally with VolumeID's)
boot=/dev/sda # or similar device
:
#### for each image another UUID, i. e.
# partition /dev/sda1
root="UUID=5019cd9d-5d2e-4d7c-a6f4-0eccb5144c77"
To list all UUID's use the tool 'blkid' from the package e2fsprogs
(Lenny) or package util-linux (Squeeze).
> Can anyone tell me what is causing this? I have never had problems with
> lilo, before. It always 'just works'.
I hope this infos can help you.
Note: These config hints where tested with lilo version 22.8-8.1 (Squeeze)
Have a nice day,
Joachim (Germany)
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