Re: lilo boot problems

[Laurent CARON <lcaron@apartia.fr>]

maarten wrote:

>Hi list,
>
>I've got bitten by the recent bug(?) that lilo seems to have with 2.6.x 
>kernels where, upon install, it prints:
>
>Fatal: Trying to map files from unnamed device 0x0000
>
>I've tried everything I could think of in lilo.conf to no avail.  Using google 
>there are several (but not many) threads about this specific error but I've 
>not seen a solution anywhere yet.
>
>A "raid-extra-boot" line doesn't help any, neither do any other options.
>
>At this point, I'm not even sure where the error comes from as even trying to 
>install a normal non-raid lilo.conf now fails.
>
>As an aside, this is what I'm trying to accomplish:
>I have a SATA boot drive /dev/sda with the root fs being /dev/sda2.  I have a 
>degraded raid1 device consisting of /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdc1, dev/sdd1.  
>(I realize this is badly chosen; had the partition number been 2 instead of 1 
>I probably would've been able to boot after changing the physical order of 
>the drives without any changes...  But as it is, I can't.)
>I'm trying to swap sdb and sda so it will boot off the raid1 device (or else 
>just of any of the 3 simple partitions that form the raid1 device...) so I 
>can then add the former /dev/sda to the array to complete it. 
>
>Any insights...?
>
>Maarten
>
>  
>
you have to reconstruct your array first.