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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: virtio: kvm-62,
 lilo cannot be installed into	virtio device
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:38:55 -0800
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	Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Tomas Rusnak <linker@korex.sk>
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Tomas Rusnak wrote:
> Chris Wedgwood napsal(a):
>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:11:30AM +0100, Tomas Rusnak wrote:
>>
>>>>> Check 'man lilo.conf' under 'disk=' and 'max-partitions='
>>> Thank you for your quick answer, but this doesn't help. After i run
>>> lilo, it give me the same error message.
>> did you try adding 'max-partitions=16' or similar?
>>
> 
> Oh yes, i forgot it :)
> 
> But max-partitions=16 give you "bad value". After this I try 
> max-partitions=7 and run lilo with following result:
> 
> Warning: /proc/partitions references Experimental major device 254.
> Warning: /proc/partitions references Experimental major device 254.
> Warning: /proc/partitions references Experimental major device 254.
> Added Gentoo-25 *
> 3 warnings were issued.
> 

max-partitions=7 sounds a bit confining, why are we using such a low number?

LILO is one of several reasons why using dynamic major really isn't such 
a great idea.  We don't have the 8:8 limitation anymore.

	-hpa

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