From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757532AbYBSRWn (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:22:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753173AbYBSRWf (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:22:35 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:55370 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753063AbYBSRWe (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:22:34 -0500 Message-ID: <47BB1053.60409@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:22:27 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rasmus Andersen CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: LILO fatal error after going from 2.6.22 to 2.6.24.2 References: <20080219070201.GA7353@avlebavle.dk> In-Reply-To: <20080219070201.GA7353@avlebavle.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Rasmus Andersen wrote: > Hello, > > I have just upgraded from 2.6.22 to 2.6.24.2 and after booting into the > new kernel and seeing that everything went right, I wanted to make the > new kernel the default boot kernel. But running LILO I got > > Fatal: Linux experimental device 0x04x needs to be defined. > Check 'man lilo.conf' under 'disk=' and 'max-partitions=' > > (Full output from lilo -v 5 below). Apart from setting 2.6.24.2 as > default this is the same lilo config as 2.6.22 was able to write fine. > Can anyone tell me what I (or the kernel) am/is doing wrong? > You have at least one file on a device mapper device (possibly an LVM module), and LILO doesn't understand it. -hpa