Can LILO with Saout's device mapper patch boot from an LVM2 /boot over software RAID1 ?
I get the following error when runing lilo: Fatal: Sorry, don't know how to handle device 0xfe01
Does this mean that LILO can only boot from a RAID1 *OR* device-mapper device, not both? (LVM2 on top of RAID1)
It seems to me that I have some real problem:
I've undone my LVM2 over RAID1 setup and prepared a new one. I've setup some LVM2 volumes directly over a /dev/hdc physical volume instead of a /dev/md0 containing /dev/hda1 and hdc1.
Before: /dev/hda1 (failed-disk)--> /dev/hdc1 (raid-disk) -->dev/md0 --> /dev/system/ root swap var
After: /dev/hdc --> /dev/system root swap var
I ran LILO version 22.5.8 (Debian GNU/Linux) with the patches from Cristopher Saout:
backup:/mnt/root# lilo -X
CFLAGS = -O2 -Wall -g -DLILO=0x16c2d41b -DLCF_BDATA -DLCF_DSECS=3 -DLCF_EVMS -DLCF_IGNORECASE -DLCF_LVM -DLCF_ONE_SHOT -DLCF_PASS160 -DLCF_REISERFS -DLCF_REWRITE_TABLE -DLCF_SOLO_CHAIN -DLCF_VERSION -DLCF_VIRTUAL -DLCF_DEVMAPPER -DLCF_AUTOAUTO -Idebian/kernel-headers
and it gave me the same error!!!!
backup:/mnt/root# lilo -t -C etc/lilo.conf.lvmtest -r . Fatal: Sorry, don't know how to handle device 0xfe01
If I run lilo from hda2 (no LVM) I get a successful instalation: backup:/mnt/root# lilo -t -C etc/lilo.conf.lvmtest -r / Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory structure. Name change: '/dev/dm-0' -> '/dev/mapper/system-swap' Warning: The boot sector and map file are on different disks. Added ramdisk_LVM * The boot sector and the map file have *NOT* been altered.
Just to be sure I downloaded lilo 22.5.8 tarball and the patch from http://www.saout.de/misc/lilo-22.5.8-devmapper.patch, and compiled it myself. Again the same error. I have devmapper compiled in my 2.6 kernel. I have libdevmapper installed on my system. I have lilo patched to understand devmapper. What am I doing wrong here? Do you have any clues?
This is my lilo.conf on both roots:
default="ramdisk_LVM"
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.3-4
label="ramdisk_LVM"
initrd=/boot/initrd-lvm2-2.6.3-4.gz
append="root=/dev/ram0 lvm2root=/dev/system/root video=aty128fb:1024x768-24@76"
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Thanks
Miguel
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