Re: strange lilo error

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On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 10:25:42AM +0200, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote:
> Louis-David Mitterrand <vindex@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Once /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hdb2 have been marked faulty and removed lilo
> > will fail with the following message:
> > Fatal: Trying to map files from unnamed device 0x0000 (NFS/RAID mirror down ?)
> 
> Well, this is coherent, isn't it?

No, this doesn't happen with a 2.4.26 kernel, only with a 2.6.6 (and
maybe others in the 2.6.x series).

> > After running a few tests it appears lilo will only stop complaining
> > once the original raid1 set is restored _and_ synchronized.
> [...]
> > Any idea? Thanks in advance,
> 
> Well, a question at first :)
> Why do you need to run lilo after you failed one of the mirrors?

I need to reboot to a degraded array to complete the filesystem
conversion.

> Anyways - I'm running lilo on degraded arrays and it works
> very well.

On which kernel?

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