[linux-lvm] Re: problem with lvm on root-fs

[Stefan Weigel]

Sunday, October 20, 2002, 12:34:57 PM, you wrote:

LB> On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 03:05:11PM +0200, Stefan Weigel wrote:
>>Hi Luca!
>>I should be happy now but there's still a problem left. First: now I can boot 
>>from my lvm-root-fs (yeeehhaaa). My problem: one line in /etc/lilo.conf 
>>(ramdisk=16384 instead of ramdisk=8192).
>>But if I now want to run lilo I get this message:
>>
>>Fatal: Sorry, dont know how to handle device 0x3a05
>>
LB> this could be caused by an old lilo version.

LB> LVM support was added to mainstream lilo in version 22.

LB> upgrade to latest version from
LB> ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo

LB> L.


Yes, this could be the problem. But on the other hand it's a SuSE
Linux Enterprise version. And SuSE is very common with LVM. So I will
be very surprised if their packages wouldn't work together. But I will
give this a try..I will report if this problem is caused by an old
lilo version.

best regards

Stefan

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