Re: Lilo: fatal: raid_setup: stat("/dev/hda")

[Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com>]

On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:06:29 -0400 (EDT), Thomas H. George wrote:
> 
> After latest upgrade installation of lilo fails.
> 
> I am not using raid and have the entry boot=/dev/hda in lilo.conf as
> specified in the man page.  The installation fails with error code 01
> which according to the lilo man page means invalid disk command.
> 
> Does it now want a UUID? If so, where do I find the correct UUID.
> Values for the partitions are listed in /etc/fstab but not for the MBR.
> I have checked several posibilities in /proc without success.  In
> particular in /proc/bus there are now only three subdirectories, Input,
> pci and usb.
> 
> Since this a new problem I checked the archives for August and September
> but found nothing about lilo.

Your post is lacking important information to diagnose the problem.
For example,

(1) Are you running Lenny or Squeeze? (or something else)
(2) What architecture? (i386 or amd64)
(3) What kernel are you running?  Is it stock or custom?  If it is
    custom, exactly how did you build it?
(4) What additional backup kernels (if any) do you have installed?
(5) What files, if any, are present in the following directories:
    /etc/kernel/postinst.d
    /etc/kernel/postrm.d
    /etc/initramfs/post-update.d
(6) I'd like to see the contents of the following files:
    /etc/kernel-img.conf
    /etc/fstab
    /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume
    /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/driver-policy
    /etc/lilo.conf
(7) I'd like to see the output of the following commands:
    ls -Ald /dev/disk/by-uuid/
    ls -Ald /dev/disk/by-path/
    ls -Ald /dev/disk/by-id/

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