Re: lilo on raid5 root doesn't work

From: Greg Lee (greg_at_ling.lll.hawaii.edu)
Date: 12/05/04 

Date: 5 Dec 2004 00:15:06 GMT

Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.misc Greg Lee <greg@ling.lll.hawaii.edu>:
> > I moved my root filesystem from an ordinary parition
> > onto a raid5 array and lilo stopped working. It complains
> > "Fatal: Only RAID1 devices are supported for boot images".
> [..]

> > I don't see what I'm doing wrong. Do you think it's
> > a bug in lilo? I compiled a lilo 22.6.1 and got the
> > same result.

> Why should there be a bug in lilo? It told you exactly the
> problem, it can't have /boot on raid 5, nor can grub (IIRC).

But /boot is not on raid5. It's on an ordinary partition.
I said that.

Thanks, though. 

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Greg Lee <greg@ling.lll.hawaii.edu>